In 2008, London created its Low Emission Zone (LEZ) to encourage the most polluting heavy diesel vehicles driving in the city to become cleaner.
Following the summer's seasonal manufacturing shutdowns, higher light-duty diesel product sales were offset by lower sales of heavy-duty diesel filters and substrates.
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One thing hasn't: Cummins Engine, the world's biggest maker of heavy-duty diesel engines, still doesn't make money.
For environmental technologies, the company sees a year-over-year decline in Q1, but for the full year, the company sees growth in the worldwide auto and heavy-duty diesel truck markets.
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Of the seven full-size, heavy-duty diesel pickup trucks Vincentric studied, the Ford F-350 is the only one with five year ownership costs that are lower than that of its gas-powered equivalent.
The only area of growth for platinum is possible growth in the heavy-duty diesel sector in China, he said, while the only caveats for palladium is any move to smaller engines and the outlook for electric vehicles.
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Senior customs officer Colm McAllister said companies caught using red diesel faced heavy financial penalties.
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Beer is trying to figure out how he's going to afford to put diesel in his heavy equipment.
The Bolivian government withdrew its heavy subsidies for petrol and diesel on Sunday, saying it was not prepared to keep fuel prices artificially low.
Wal-Mart and its suppliers cut the world's biggest civilian heavy-truck fleet's diesel use per ton-mile by 38 percent in 2004-08 and aim to halve it by 2015.
Right now, biodiesel is a growing industry but hasn't made an appreciable dent on the global dependence on heavy crude oil, from which diesel fuel is processed.
"Until now, Tokelau has been 100% dependent upon diesel for electricity generation, with heavy economic and environmental costs, " he added.
Its engine segment (49% of net sales in 2010) produces a wide range of engines that run on diesel and natural gas used in heavy-, medium- and light-duty trucks, buses, automobiles, RVs, and industrial vehicles.
Historically until lately, diesel mainly was something Americans put in their heavy-duty pickup trucks.
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What that means in practical terms is that the F-350 Diesel is more capable at towing and hauling heavy loads.
Cummins (CMI) manufactures diesel, hybrid, and natural gas engines, primarily for heavy trucks.
But the maker of International brand heavy trucks and buses did make an important strategic move Thursday by announcing it will purchase diesel engines and after-treatment components from its rival Cummins, which is already producing engines that comply with emissions rules set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Five-axis tools are used for the production of precision components in the aerospace industry, in making gas and diesel engines, automobile parts, and throughout the medical, textile, oil, glass, heavy industrial equipment and tool industries.
Aside from heavy-duty pickups, only about 3% of U.S. light-duty vehicles are powered by diesel today.
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