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• Continuously Variable Transmission
  ...ween the two motor-generators is needed even during cruise, with resulting conversion losses, but the total effect is to increase the net efficiency through four ...ration function when the vehicle is slowing or coasting downhill, with the energy (stored in the battery) applied to the initial acceleration of the vehicle
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• Petroleum electric hybrid vehicle
  ...g more efficiency. Other techniques may be used to recover or reduce waste energy (such as regenerative braking and shutting down the combustion engine). ...duced]] hybrids prolong the charge on their batteries by capturing kinetic energy via [[regenerative braking]]. Many PEHVs shut down the combustion engine at
  48 KB (7,153 words) - 16:31, 25 September 2009
• Pontiac Grand Prix
  ...r to meet Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) mandates set after 1973-74 energy crisis, a Buick-built 231 in³ [[V6|V6]] was standard equipment on the ...rd sales of Cutlasses and reduced production of that engine due to a plant conversion to build a Diesel V8 beginning in 1978, a few '77 Grand Prixs destined for
  39 KB (6,042 words) - 09:36, 22 November 2010
• Motor oil
  ...her causing friction which wastes otherwise useful power by converting the energy to heat. Contact between moving surfaces also wears away those parts, which ...containers, is used to make wax with the correct molecular properties for conversion into a lubricant, bypassing the expensive Fischer-Tropsch process. The plas
  42 KB (6,527 words) - 06:09, 25 May 2010

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