The boat's diesel engine has even been replaced by a small outboard charged by solar panels.
If Fiat, with 4% of worldwide share, folded its tent, GM's European operations could go after those assets it really needs--like Fiat's diesel engine capability--at a bargain price.
Cummins is the largest foreign investor in China's diesel-engine industry, with seven joint ventures.
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.
The hull's shape and the medium speed diesel engine means the yacht produces low emissions.
This design, ideal for city driving's stops and starts, allows the diesel engine to be shut off when the vehicle is stopped or decelerating.
The company also will unveil the 328d in the U.S., a 3-Series equipped with a diesel engine that should get more than 40 miles per gallon on the highway.
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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Other projects financed by the VC fund: In BorgWarner's engine division engineers are working on strategies to optimize airflow in diesel engines for more efficient combustion.
One thing hasn't: Cummins Engine, the world's biggest maker of heavy-duty diesel engines, still doesn't make money.
The six-cylinder diesel engine guns into life, shattering the silence across Graham Hewitt's orchard near Stonebridge.
You can count up 5.8 million BTUs (that's how many BTUs a barrel of oil yields) from a wood stove, or a diesel engine, or a microprocessor, or a laser.
The Royal Navy's official inquiry concluded HMS Affray sank because the snort mast, the tube through which the diesel engine "breathed" while the submarine was at periscope depth, snapped because of metal fatigue.
"When you look to the German car manufacturers now, they are fighting against each other with the biggest statement, with more horse power, and these days a diesel engine car is as powerful as a petrol car, " Saab Europe's Claude Makowski told BBC News Online.
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