Adding to the malaise, the price of piston-engine fuel with low lead content shot skyward stoked by environmental concerns.
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Back then, the draw was mainly curiosity, and there was no social media engine to fuel the hype.
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Your ERG must serve as a cultural competency engine to fuel better intelligence for the executive team who may not always be as informed as they should be.
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The GM engine has electronic fuel injection that automatically adjusts to any acceptable fuel configuration.
So Ford modified the system for the Wayne plant, substituting a Stirling engine for the fuel cell.
Most Brazilian cars can run on a mixture of ethanol and petrol, thanks in part to the flex-fuel engine, developed in the country.
The physics of a spray dryer are like that of a diesel engine's fuel injector in that it atomizes liquid (insulin or gasoline) into droplets.
He singled airplane manufacturer Sukhoi Company, saying Russian made aircraft should be competitive with their foreign rivals in terms of engine noise, fuel economy and flight distance.
Some of the proposed alternatives to traditional engine design offer fuel savings that aren't that much greater than auto makers believe they can achieve through improvements to the designs they know.
The flex-fuel engine--prized because it uses a renewable resource that reduces dependency on traditional gasoline--on the Cherokee was even worse: three out of 10 and one out of 10 for the air pollution and gas emissions, respectively.
The EPA engineers came up with a formula that automakers around the world have long been groping for--an engine that explodes fuel at such a relatively low temperature (below 2, 000 degrees Fahrenheit) that almost no noxious nitrogen oxides are produced.
Thanks to the efficient turbocharged, common-rail, direct fuel-injection diesel engine, the concept car is still very fuel-efficient.
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One success so far: Barra pushed to speed up the consolidation of GM's three small-car engine lines, arguing that it shouldn't wait four years to introduce a single, more fuel-efficient engine that could be used worldwide.
The 300 tons of fuselage and engine, and the fuel it takes to move them, are all free.
Once at 41, 000, I pulled the throttles back to 220 pounds per hour of Jet A fuel per engine.
The speed of change we are experiencing is astounding and demands comprehensive, quality, innovative ideas to fuel the engine.
Ingesting this slower air allows an engine to burn its fuel more efficiently while generating the same amount of thrust.
Upon reaching 41, 000 I pulled the Mustang's throttles back to 220 pounds per hour per engine of Jet A fuel.
For a couple years now, the government has been trying to start an engine with virtually no fuel flowing to it.
The standard approach, being pursued in America and France, works like a diesel engine by compressing the fuel until it ignites.
The turbos, smaller engine blocks and advanced fuel-management systems available on the Cruze and others may not be as sexy as lithium-ion batteries.
Our central bank has lurched from stalling the engine by supplying insufficient fuel--as it did from 1997 to 2001--to flooding it with excessive fuel.
What government can do is fuel that engine by giving entrepreneurs and companies the support to open their doors and to expand and to hire more workers.
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Others are offering continuously variable transmissions (CVT), which have no traditional gears but keep the engine at its most fuel-efficient RPM across a wide range of speeds.
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In a modern animal-raising facility, we take the manure from those animals and generate enough biogas to fuel an engine generator that produces enough energy for the entire site.
When powered by gasoline, the C-MAX Energi uses the all-new 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder engine - powerful and fuel efficient and among the most advanced non-turbocharged four-cylinder powertrains Ford has ever offered.
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The WMSC has also confirmed the ban on refuelling during races, to save on costs of transporting refuelling equipment and increase the incentive for engine builders to improve fuel economy, and on tyre warmers.
The fast-ignition technique is more like a petrol engine: first the fuel is compressed and only then is it ignited by a second laser pulse acting as a spark plug that is fired through a hole in the pellet.
It boasts a fuel-injection engine made especially for the hot and dusty Indian climate.
It is powered by a hydrogen fuel-cell engine, which converts hydrogen gas into energy.
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