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Wärtsilä designing first hybrid propulsion system for fish farming ship

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Wärtsilä has been contracted to deliver the ship design for a new processing and transportation vessel to be built at the Balenciaga shipyard in Spain on behalf of Hav Line AS of Norway. The delivery of the Wärtsilä solutions will be during autumn 2017 and the vessel is scheduled for delivery in summer 2018.

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Wärtsilä providing HY hybrid modules for Swedish port tug; first vessel operating with Wärtsilä HY solution

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The vessel is being built at GONDAN Shipbuilders, in Asturias, Spain, and the order with Wärtsilä was booked in December 2017. These include ship assist with a bollard pull of up to 55 tons, or 90 tons on two main engines in diesel-mechanical mode. —Giulio Tirelli, Director, Marine Engineering, Wärtsilä Marine Solutions.

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Volvo’s Polestar 1 PHEV makes European debut; pre-orders open 13 March

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The combustion engine in the Polestar 1 is a high-performance supercharged and turbocharged gasoline in-line four-cylinder engine. The mechanically driven supercharger adds torque from low-to-medium engine speeds together with the turbocharger up to 3500 rpm. —Thomas Ingenlath, Chief Executive Officer of Polestar.

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Mercedes-Benz Vans shows pickup truck concepts; market launch in late 2017; diesel V6

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Ladder-type frame, high-torque six-cylinder engine, and permanent all-wheel drive are compulsory for us. The high-torque engine will provide high driving dynamics on the road and off the road. Production for the European, Australian and South African markets will start at the Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain, in 2017.

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Mercedes-Benz introduces its mid-size pickup truck: the X-Class leans on diesel

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There are three design and equipment variants to choose from as well as four- or six-cylinder engines, rear-wheel drive and engageable or permanent all-wheel drive, a six-speed manual transmission and a seven-speed automatic transmission. At market launch, there are two four-cylinder engines. The ECO start/stop function is activated.

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