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• Tilling Stevens
  ...vehicles/vo9926.asp Birmingham Motor Museum] the simpler to operate petrol-electric transmission was popular among bus drivers rather than the conventional cra ...ated its position with bus operators in the World War I because the petrol electric chassis were not considered suitable by the Army for use in France. However
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• Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle
  ...title=Driveclean.ca.gov fact sheet: Definition of a partial zero-emissions vehicle}}</ref> ...mission vehicle]]s (ZEVs), which will require the production of [[electric vehicle]]s or hydrogen [[fuel cell]] vehicles.
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• Auto-Mixte
  ...Gillet-Herstal. Auto-Mixte made busses for the City of London as well; one electric engine driving each wheel, therefore creating one single walkway without ob ...tp://www.hybridcars.com/history/history-of-hybrid-vehicles.html History of hybrid vehicles]
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• Orion Bus Industries
  ...gas|CNG]], [[Diesel engine|diesel]], or [[diesel-electric]] (hybrid). The hybrid model is further available with a lead-acid or a lithium-ion battery. * Hybrid electric ([[Diesel-Electric]])
  4 KB (605 words) - 04:52, 22 September 2010
• Guangzhou Auto Group
  ...oncerns in China, especially has good relationships to Japanese automobile manufacturers, [[Isuzu]], [[Honda]], and [[Toyota]]. These are not for providing to the C * [[Guangzhou A-HEV Hybrid Concept]]
  3 KB (359 words) - 08:21, 21 November 2007
• BYD Auto
  * [[BYD F3e]] (Electric) [[List of automobile manufacturers#China|Chinese auto makers]]
  2 KB (255 words) - 06:19, 14 January 2009
• City car
  ...0s, and nowadays they are a proper [[car classification]]. Most mainstream manufacturers have one or even two city cars in their lineup, so the competition is fierc ...in some locations, electric recharging is provided to encourage the use of electric vehicles. NEVs may also be used as station cars where the roadway speed lim
  8 KB (1,230 words) - 12:06, 11 October 2009
• Green vehicle
  A '''green vehicle''' is a [[vehicle]] that is considered to be "environmentally friendly". This is accomplishe ...ewable energy sources throughout its working life (i.e. [[battery electric vehicle]]).
  8 KB (1,184 words) - 03:14, 18 December 2010
• Drive by wire
  ...ts, coolers and vacuum servos and master cylinders are eliminated from the vehicle. Safety can be improved by providing computer controlled intervention of vehicle controls with systems such as [[Electronic Stability Control]] (ESC), [[ada
  5 KB (775 words) - 03:58, 22 September 2010
• Diesel-Electric Hybrid
  ...ric hybrid is a vehicle that is powered by both a [[diesel engine]] and an electric motor. Trains have relied on this technology for decades. ...sions and fuel consumption. The diesel engine's high torque, combined with hybrid technology, may offer performance in a car of over 100 mpg US (2.35L per 10
  18 KB (2,608 words) - 02:08, 19 May 2009
• Battery Technology
  ...tinker on internal combustion engines. Even the Porsche Lohner Hybrid and Hybrid Race Car debuted around 1903 relied on batteries. Batteries have powered ve ...h emits polution of about ten percent of that of an ordinary low emissions vehicle when in operation and is also certified for zero evaporative emissions at a
  12 KB (1,916 words) - 05:57, 8 January 2010
• Electric vehicle
  An '''electric vehicle''', or EV, is a [[vehicle]] with one or more electric motors for propulsion. The motion may be provided either by [[wheels]] or The energy used to propel the vehicle may be obtained from several sources:
  15 KB (2,113 words) - 15:32, 28 July 2009
• Three-wheeled car
  ...//pages.zoom.co.uk/elvis/history2.html |title=The History of the 3-Wheeled Vehicle |author=Elvis Payne |date=2001 |publisher=pages.zoom.co.uk |accessdate=2008 ...te the wide round surface of the vehicle. The single rear wheel allows the vehicle to taper at the back. This approach is used by the [[Aptera 2 Series]]. It
  10 KB (1,391 words) - 09:34, 20 September 2010
• Iveco
  ...e'''hicle '''Co'''rporation, an alliance among European commercial vehicle manufacturers such as [[Fiat]] (including [[Officine Meccaniche|OM]] and [[Lancia|Lancia Today the company is a significant player in the medium-duty commercial vehicle and [[engine]] markets, and is near the top for sales of passenger transpor
  8 KB (1,142 words) - 09:33, 18 September 2008
• Reasons Not to Buy a Hybrid Car (yet)
  ...balance, here are good reasons to wait on buying a [[Hybrid Cars|hybrid]] vehicle: ==[[Hybrid Cars|Hybrids]] cost more upfront==
  11 KB (1,928 words) - 04:35, 18 February 2010
• Power steering
  ...the driver of an automobile in [[steering]] by directing a portion of the vehicle's power to traverse the axis of one or more of the [[wheel|roadwheels]]. On ...have power steering, owing to the trends toward front wheel drive, greater vehicle mass, and wider [[tire]]s, which all increase the required steering effort.
  14 KB (2,243 words) - 13:21, 18 May 2010
• Trunk
  The '''trunk''' or '''boot''' of an [[automobile]] or car is the vehicle's main storage, luggage, or cargo compartment. ''Trunk'' is used in North ...he rear of the vehicle. Storage areas are normally at the other end of the vehicle to which the engine is located. Some [[Mid-engine design|mid-engined]] cars
  7 KB (1,165 words) - 17:51, 31 March 2010
• New Flyer Industries
  ...71.</ref> "trackless trolleys", as trolleybuses are known there. The first vehicle was delivered in June 2007, and the remaining 37 were received by SEPTA dur ...includes a firm order for 22 hybrids with options for up to 493 diesel or hybrid buses for KCM and 200 assignable options for a total value of up to US $514
  15 KB (2,231 words) - 07:10, 30 April 2010
• Alternator
  ...were known in simple forms from the discovery of the magnetic induction of electric current. The early machines were developed by pioneers such as Michael Fara ...he called electromagnetic self-rotors. In the prototype of the single-pole electric starter (finished between 1852 and 1854) both the stationary and the revolv
  13 KB (1,918 words) - 11:08, 5 February 2009
• Bivalent (engine)
  ...an passenger vehicle aftermarket. Bivalent engines can also use [[hydrogen vehicle|hydrogen]] as demonstrated by the recently introduced [[BMW]] 'Clean Energy ...soline mode the fuel is injected directly into the cylinders, and when the vehicle is running on hydrogen the fuel is injected into the intake manifold. Hydro
  8 KB (1,340 words) - 17:55, 31 March 2010

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