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• Transmission
  ...ht-angle drives and other gearing in windmills, horse-powered devices, and steam engines, mainly in support of pumping, milling, and hoisting. ...title the driver to use a [[Manual transmission|manual]] car on the public road unless a second manual test is taken. In most of the other European nations
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• Motor Racing
  ...judged on their speed, handling and safety characteristics, and De Dion's steam car needed a stoker which was forbidden.<ref name="8W"/> ...ies caused the French government to stop the race in Bordeaux and ban open-road racing.<!--Rallying continues: the [[Monte Carlo Rally]] is still run-->
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• Catalytic converter
  ...the heart of vehicle emission control systems in North American roadgoing vehicles, and are also used on "Large [[spark plug|Spark]] [[ignition system|Ignitio ...nverter also has the capability of storing the Oxygen from the exhaust gas steam, usually when the air fuel ratio goes lean. When insufficient Oxygen is av
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• La Macchina
  ...lity Vehicle (SUV) version would also be built, which combines extreme off-road capability with great ruggedness and, again, as much super-car-like perform ...iversal in relation to energy sources]: liquid and gaseous fuel, hydrogen, steam, pneumatic, and hydraulic. The Quasiturbine also has a torque curve that pe
  88 KB (14,928 words) - 20:32, 22 September 2009
• Automotive industry
  ...sells the world's [[motor vehicle]]s. In 2008, more than 70 million motor vehicles, including [[car]]s and [[commercial vehicle]]s were produced worldwide.<re ...round the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yea
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• Battery electric vehicle
  '''Battery electric vehicles''' or '''BEV'''s are [[electric vehicle]]s whose main energy storage is in ...mes used, forming a type of [[hybrid vehicle]]. Batteries used in electric vehicles include "flooded" lead-acid, absorbed glass mat, NiCd, nickel metal hydride
  56 KB (8,990 words) - 15:42, 24 September 2009

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