Many seller of flooded cars will steam clean the engine compartment but usually forget to wipe down afterwards.
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The top half and the control panels are clean, but the engine room and cabin were submerged after a hurricane punched a hole through the fiberglass hull.
He said the Bridgend plant will be the sole global source of the clean energy engine and it was a "real feather in the cap" for Wales.
That could reduce the cost of clean diesel engine technology in the future.
This vehicle brings together MQB elements that could underpin a future generation of SUVs, such as the front and rear suspensions, the 190-horsepower TDI Clean Diesel engine from the new EA288 family, and a six-speed DSG dual-clutch automatic transmission.
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The TDI Clean Diesel engine makes 295 lb-ft from just 1750 rpm, while the electric motors produce their torque-133 lb-ft at the front wheels and 199 lb-ft at the rear-immediately.
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Because hydrogen can clean the exhaust right from a cold engine start, the plasma reformer method is 20% to 50% more efficient at reducing NOx than other clean-diesel technologies, allowing less unburned fuel to pass through in the process.
Armed with the best microelectronic technology the humble engine can be clean and efficient and above all tolerant of the fuels it consumes.
Canadian inventor Louis Michaud has created the Atmospheric Vortex Engine, which harnesses the energy of tornados to produce clean energy, and energy companies Dominion and FuelCell Energy Inc. announced plans to build the largest fuel cell power plant in North America.
That's at the heart of our efforts, and clean energy can be a powerful engine for creating that kind of growth.
Imagine the surprise, then, when the EPA announced in January that it had developed a prototype diesel engine that would meet clean-air requirements.
But it did say that the engine is 10 percent lighter than a 2.2-liter diesel engine currently sold in markets outside the U.S. and that it runs clean enough not to require complicated exhaust treatments to meet emissions regulations.
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The President and the Secretary of Energy should continue the reforms of the last four years, but also continue reforming DOE to make it a well-oiled engine for clean energy innovation.
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