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• Fuel
  '''Fuel''' is any material that is capable of releasing energy when its chemical structure is changed or converted. ==Extraction of energy from fuel==
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• Electric vehicle conversion
  {{wikibookspar||Electric Vehicle Conversion}} An '''electric vehicle conversion''' is the modification of a conventional [[internal combustion engine]] (IC
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• Bivalent (engine)
  ...hicle|hydrogen]] as demonstrated by the recently introduced [[BMW]] 'Clean Energy' H7 Series, featuring a V12 bivalent engine and [[BMW Hydrogen 7]] which is ...e [[crankcase]] and water forming in the engine oil.<ref>[http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/tech_validation/pdfs/fcm03r0.pdf ?.0<!-- Bot gener
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• Electric vehicle
  The energy used to propel the vehicle may be obtained from several sources: *from chemical energy stored on the vehicle in on-board batteries: [[Battery electric vehicle]] (
  15 KB (2,113 words) - 15:32, 28 July 2009
• Gas-guzzler
  ...use in the US when congress established Gas Guzzler Tax provisions in the Energy Tax Act of 1978 to discourage the production and purchase of fuel-inefficie The U.S government introduced the Gas Guzzler Tax as a part of the [[Energy Tax Act]]. The tax was introduced to tax the purchase of inefficient vehicl
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• Hybrid electric vehicle
  *An on-board rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) and a fueled power source for vehicle propulsion ...sion losses decrease with size. Generally there is no or relatively little energy storage capacity, e.g. auxiliary and emergency batteries and hydraulic accu
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• Hydrogen vehicle
  ...erally use the hydrogen in one of two methods: combustion or [[fuel-cell]] conversion: * In fuel-cell conversion, the hydrogen is turned into electricity through fuel cells which then powe
  23 KB (3,421 words) - 22:58, 21 August 2009
• Diesel-Electric Hybrid
  ...derives its power from an alternator or generator that is coupled with an energy storage device (such as a set of batteries or super capacitors). ...engine is converted to electric power by a generator, which recharges the energy storage device (such as a battery or bank of batteries) in order to provide
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• Hypermiler
  ...g so will keep the engine in a more efficient RPM on the climb, and reduce energy wasted braking on the descent at the same average speed. To avoid slowing t ...tches, and run it on maximum setting during hill descents -- this will use energy that might otherwise be expended braking to cool the car down.
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• Hybrid Synergy Drive
  ...he drive wheels of the car. Because an internal combustion engine delivers energy best only over a small range of torque and speed the crankshaft of the engi ...fits of a continuously variable transmission, except that the torque/speed conversion uses electricity rather than direct mechanical connection. A HSD car cannot
  17 KB (2,712 words) - 09:40, 5 September 2008
• Plug-in hybrid
  ...nalysis of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology"] National Renewable Energy Laboratory conference report CP-540-40485</ref> ...uction model [[hybrid vehicle]]s may be available from conversion kits and conversion services pending commercial production. Most existing PHEVs are conversion
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• Horsepower
  ...rs in power plants. It is equal to 33,475 Btu/h (9.8095 kW), which is the energy rate needed to evaporate 34.5 lb (15.65 kg) of water at 212 °F (100 °C) i ...rocating engine assuming that it is completely efficient in converting the energy contained in the expanding gases in the cylinders. It is calculated from t
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• Fuel economy in automobiles
  ...on.<ref>[http://www.sugre.info/konvert.phtml?id=684&sprache=en sugre.info] conversion tool</ref> ...[internal combustion engine|engines]] to maximize the transformed chemical energy of the fuel (their ''[[fuel efficiency]]'') has increased since the beginni
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• Van
  ...d from cargo form to a family vehicle, referred to as a conversion van. A conversion van receives a full interior, extra seats, and comfort options such as air ...the culture as owners transformed them into rolling bedrooms and lounges. Conversion vans became a large market with plusher accommodations than factory seats.
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• Battery electric vehicle
  ...''s are [[electric vehicle]]s whose main energy storage is in the chemical energy of batteries. ...e]]s, because they produce no emissions while being driven. The electrical energy carried onboard a BEV to power the motors is obtained from a variety of bat
  56 KB (8,990 words) - 15:42, 24 September 2009
• Car classification
  ...cle size classes defined?] FuelEconomy.gov, part of the U.S. Department of Energy</ref> A similar set of classes is used by the Canadian EPA.<ref>[http://can ...ectronics such as television sets, and other amenities. The more elaborate conversion vans straddle the line between cars and recreational vehicles.
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...ce it can provide high power to weight ratios together with excellent fuel energy-density. These engines have appeared in almost all [[automobile]]s, motorbi ...osions like this hundreds of times per minute, and if you can harness that energy in a useful way, what you have is the core of a car engine!
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• Petroleum
  ...nergy" sources ([http://www.iea.org/bookshop/add.aspx?id=144 IEA Key World Energy Statistics]). Petroleum is also the raw material for many chemical products ...resource that will eventually run out, at least as an economically viable energy source. At the time, the most common and popular predictions were always qu
  35 KB (5,561 words) - 04:29, 26 May 2010
• Turbo Engine
  ...he enthalpy (energy) of the exhaust and converts that energy into rotating energy. This motion rotates a shaft that both the compressor wheel and the turbin ...[Supercharged Engine|superchargers]] because they take the least amount of energy to spin the wheels, and they heat the incoming air less than other styles o
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• Electric motor
  ...nductors. The reverse process, producing electrical energy from mechanical energy, is accomplished by a generator or dynamo. Many types of electric motors c The conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy by electromagnetic means was demonstrated by the British scientist Michael
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