The very first diesel engine that Rudolf Diesel built in 1893 ran on peanut oil.
Currently, the research effort has pioneered a hybrid engine that is cleaner than a diesel engine and almost twice as efficient as a typical gasoline-powered engine.
The maker of the Alto, A-star, Estilo, WagonR, Swift, Ritz and Ertiga cars also plans to invest 17 billion rupees in a diesel engine factory in Gurgaon, to meet surging demand for diesel cars.
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 new diesel-engine plant will be at Gurgaon, while its diesel-car capacity will be increased at Manesar, Mr. Bhargava said.
The maker of the Alto, A-Star and WagonR gasoline cars will open a 150, 000-unit-a-year diesel-engine plant and also expand its capacity to manufacture diesel cars by September to meet the expanding demand for diesel vehicles, he added.
Cummins' bread-and-butter N14 diesel engine was basically a 1970s model with lots of tweaks.
Diesel engine makers have been trying to block NOx where it originates, in the engine cylinders.
Confirm whether the boat actually uses the sails, rather than relying on a noisy diesel engine.
The boat's diesel engine has even been replaced by a small outboard charged by solar panels.
The back-up power supply includes six diesel engine generators with ten days of fuel.
The 328d will have a four-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine that puts out 180 horsepower.
The very first engine that Rudolf Diesel built in 1893 ran on peanut oil.
Dagenham will continue to play a part as it develops a next-generation, low-CO2 2.0-litre diesel engine.
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The hull's shape and the medium speed diesel engine means the yacht produces low emissions.
The diesel engine exhaust doubled the background particulate matter levels found outdoors at its peak.
The six-cylinder diesel engine guns into life, shattering the silence across Graham Hewitt's orchard near Stonebridge.
Everything in the diesel engine business has changed in the past ten years: electronics, globalization, emissions standards.
Thanks to the efficient turbocharged, common-rail, direct fuel-injection diesel engine, the concept car is still very fuel-efficient.
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Apart from this, Suzuki is manufacturing under license 200, 000 units of a Fiat designed 1300 cc diesel engine.
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Diesel engine technology took a huge leap with the use of common-rail direct injection (CDI) in the 1990s.
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That could reduce the cost of clean diesel engine technology in the future.
Its main business is Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company, which is one of the largest medium-duty diesel engine manufacturers in China.
The result should be a cell that will, weight for weight, put out as much power as a diesel engine.
If you wanted a glimpse of the larger world, your town might run a movie off a small diesel engine.
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The money will support the introduction of its new Civic and CR-V car models and a new 1.6-litre diesel engine.
The standard approach, being pursued in America and France, works like a diesel engine by compressing the fuel until it ignites.
The man who invented the diesel engine more than a century ago knew vegetable oil would be a good fuel source.
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Michael Cross, who heads up emissions solutions at diesel engine maker Cummins, says they will need help from an exhaust treatment system.
Built in Ohio, it uses a version of a diesel engine GM already sells in Europe and other parts of the world.
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