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Wärtsilä to provide engines, emissions control and navigational control for new Virgin Voyages cruise ship fleet

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The order for Wärtsilä engines, hybrid exhaust cleaning scrubber systems, and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems was booked in 2016, while the order for the Wärtsilä integrated navigation systems was booked in March 2017. The ships will be built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy.

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Wärtsilä designing first hybrid propulsion system for fish farming ship

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The order was recorded in Wärtsilä’s order book in the fourth quarter of 2016. By absorbing most of the engine’s load fluctuations and vessel load variations through batteries, the engines can be operated close to its optimum design point, thereby providing the highest level of efficiency, which in turn minimizes the exhaust emissions.

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Volkswagen AG provides details on investigations into NOx cheating; origin and fixes; new strategic direction

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On the contrary, the software in question allowed the exhaust gas treatment additive “AdBlue” to be injected in variable amounts such that the NO x values were particularly low when vehicles were in the test bay, but significantly higher when vehicles were on the road. liter TDI, will begin in January 2016. The recall of the 1.2

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Volvo introducing Pilot Assist II semi-autonomous drive tech as standard on MY2017 XC90

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When the driver accelerates rapidly, a valve opens and the compressed air is released into the exhaust manifold, feeding the turbo and creating an instant spool-up. Volvo’s in-car connectivity and driver interface system, Sensus, will receive several new native apps across the range for 2016, including Spotify and Park and Pay.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

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The Q7 PHEV will arrive in dealerships in Germany in 2016, and will likely come to the US, although perhaps with a gasoline-engine variant. prismatic cells—each of them about half the size of a paperback book—or long, flat pouch cells. Because the exhaust system transports only water, it can be made of lightweight polymer.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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And I’m careful about choosing these fights because they’re very exhausting. No, but I knew who they were and they wrote the books and they lived in L.A. Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now. This is not Bradley Bartz. It is a dangerous stick to go ahead and pull the trigger.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

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It started in 2016 when I set myself a small challenge: how do you travel without money and in an electric car from the Netherlands to Australia ? I tried to make a reservation in advance, but alas, it was fully booked. Booking train tickets for international trips is not always easy. ’ Exhausted? Absolutely.