Diesel Fuel
Liquid fuels for use in internal-combustion engines are extracted and refined from crude oil, with diesel fuels being part of the middle distillate or kerosene fraction. Kerosene was in...
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Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858–1913), a German thermal engineer, invented the diesel engine and patented it in 1893. Unlike their gasoline counterparts, which ignite an air/fuel mixt...
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Popular European diesels face a gantlet of tough emissions laws in this country. Starting in 2007, all cars sold in the U.S. must comply with the Tier 2 regulations that began phasing in with the 2...
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Truck and bus maker AB Volvo on Tuesday made a $1.07 billion offer to take over Japan's Nissan Diesel Motor Co. in which the Swedish company already owns 19 percent, Volvo said.Nissan Diesel's boar...
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Swedish truck maker AB Volvo made a $1 billion offer Tuesday to take over Japan's Nissan Diesel in a strategic move aimed at gaining a solid presence in Asia.The move, which would give Volvo full o...
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Clean-up crews on Monday started mopping up 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled in wildlife-rich Prince William Sound when a fishing vessel grounded there, state environmental officials said....
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California air quality regulators on Thursday adopted the nation's toughest emission standards for off-highway diesel vehicles like bulldozers, airport baggage trucks and ski resort snowcats.An est...
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DETROIT, (Reuters) - A fresh mandate from Washington
for automakers to sharply increase fuel efficiency has given an
unexpected boost to a historically unpopular alternative in the
United States -...
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Detroit (dpa) - Forget the diesel compacts zipping around European
roads. As automakers seek to remake the fuel's image in the United
States, they're going in heavy.
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Diesel
The Diesel Dilemma
