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ZF Developing Novel EV Range Extender, Production Starts Next Year

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This permits the vehicles to travel shorter distances using nothing but electricity, or tap into the fuel tank and use gasoline or diesel to help accommodate longer journeys. But the prospect of having a range-extended EV with a direct-drive system using gasoline is certainly interesting.

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Ram Power Wagon May Eventually Receive Diesel Engine Option

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liter V8 that burns gasoline. While your author has a soft spot for older diesels vehicles, modern emissions systems have significantly reduced the advantages associated with owning one. But if you forget to add the DEF while refueling, the truck will go into an emissions-compliant limp mode.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part LXII)

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automotive market had endured the OPEC crisis, increases in gasoline prices generally, fuel economy pressures from consumers, and increased competition from efficient and reliable Japanese cars. Emissions regulations increasingly demanded engines spew a lower volume of toxic chemicals from their exhausts. By 1979, the U.S.

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New Emissions Analytics study suggests pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions

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In early 2020, UK-based independent testing firm Emissions Analytics published a study claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions ( earlier post ). —Emissions Analytics. Quoting such ratios, however, needs careful interpretation.

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Study finds engines emit exhaust nanoparticles even when not fueled during engine braking

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Exhaust particle size distributions measured by ELPI (color map) and particle concentration measured by CPC (white line) during individual engine braking conditions (speed change from 32 km/h to 0 km/h). The exhaust sample was taken from the exhaust manifold. The exhaust sample was taken from the exhaust manifold.

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Mercedes-AMG entry-level SL 43 features electric exhaust gas turbocharger from Formula 1 for the first time in production vehicle

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The SL 43 features an M139 in-line two-liter, four-cylinder gasoline engine with an electric exhaust gas turbocharger—used for the first time in a production vehicle. The electric exhaust gas turbocharger is a fascinating example of the extensive transfer between Formula 1 technology and the development of production vehicles.

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Tsinghua study compares two diesel-gasoline combustion modes; both deliver high efficiencies and low emissions

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The effects of gasoline ratio on indicated thermal efficiency of HCII and GDBF modes. Researchers at Tsinghua University have compared the combustion and emissions characteristics of two dual-fuel (diesel-gasoline) modes intended to integrate the advantages of both fuels to achieve high thermal efficiency and low emission targets.

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