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• Green vehicle
  **Using [[biofuel]]s instead of petroleum fuels. ...onal vehicle can become a greener vehicle of a sort by mixing in renewable fuels. Typical [[gasoline]] cars can handle up to 15% [[alcohol fuel|ethanol]].
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• Alcohol fuel
  ...tic alcohols (methanol, ethanol, propanol, and butanol) are of interest as fuels because they can be synthesized biologically, and they have characteristics Alcohol fuels are usually of biological rather than [[petroleum]] sources. When obtained
  21 KB (3,045 words) - 06:53, 26 May 2010
• California Air Resources Board
  ...e plan to increase the use of alternative fuels in California (Alternative Fuels Plan).
  9 KB (1,267 words) - 16:24, 25 September 2009
• Petrol engine
  ...-ignition]], designed to run on petrol ([[gasoline]]) and similar volatile fuels.
  4 KB (596 words) - 21:32, 8 October 2010
• Future car technologies
  ...c.wvu.edu Alternative Fuel Vehicle Training] From the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium.
  4 KB (617 words) - 01:46, 22 August 2009
• Electric vehicle
  ...sually in the form of [[diesel]] or [[petrol]] ([[gasoline]]). The liquid fuels are usually converted into electricity by an [[electrical generator]] power ...per unit mass|energy]] and [[Specific power|power density]] than petroleum fuels. However, recent advances in battery efficiency, capacity, materials, safet
  15 KB (2,113 words) - 15:32, 28 July 2009
• Ferrari F430 Spider BioFuel Concept
  ...tly to the engine CPU to allow the engine use E85. Developing the CPU, two fuels (Flex Fuel) can be used by the engine with the same compression ratio. All
  4 KB (613 words) - 04:50, 29 June 2009
• Diesel engine
  ...tent on February 23, 1893. Diesel intended the engine to use a variety of fuels including coal dust. He demonstrated it in the 1900 Exposition Universelle
  5 KB (818 words) - 19:13, 14 August 2006
• Alternative Fuel Vehicles
  ...ver, the same strategies used to ensure operability of conventional diesel fuels in wintertime will also work for biodiesel blends. These include the use of
  12 KB (1,707 words) - 16:25, 25 September 2009
• Fuel dispenser
  ...ies, where suction pumps may have problems overcoming cavitation with warm fuels or when the distance from tank to pump is longer than a suction pump can ma ...roduce an intermediate [[octane rating]] from separate high and low octane fuels, or to blend hydrogen and [[compressed natural gas]] ([[HCNG]]).
  11 KB (1,760 words) - 20:54, 22 August 2009
• Crossley
  ...1888 and the introduction of the [[carburettor]], allowing volatile liquid fuels to be used.
  6 KB (880 words) - 07:15, 19 February 2007
• Rudolf Diesel
  6 KB (908 words) - 09:36, 8 February 2010
• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...of [[hydrocarbon]]s and are derived from [[petroleum]]. These include the fuels known as [[diesel]], [[gasoline]] and [[liquified petroleum gas]]. Most int Fuels used include [[gasoline]] (British term: petrol), [[liquified petroleum gas
  31 KB (4,688 words) - 09:27, 21 August 2010
• Atkinson cycle
  ...This modification of the Atkinson cycle allows for the use of alternative fuels like Diesel and hydrogen. See External Links for more information.
  7 KB (1,114 words) - 05:01, 2 March 2010
• Fuel injection
  :*ability to accommodate alternative fuels ...mable software has permitted common hardware to be used across some of the fuels.
  33 KB (4,922 words) - 12:15, 4 June 2009
• Autogas
  ...f petrol and some 40% cheaper than diesel. The recent rises in oil-derived fuels has sharply raised the difference. ...t autogas is currently excise-free, excise is to be imposed on all vehicle fuels that are not currently subject to excise, being added incrementally from 20
  25 KB (4,088 words) - 20:43, 22 August 2009
• Tax horsepower
  ...or upgrades such as (typically) higher compression ratios as higher octane fuels slowly returned to European service stations.
  7 KB (1,017 words) - 13:48, 2 November 2010
• Catalytic converter
  ...ightly different, requiring modified fuel system settings when using those fuels). When there is more oxygen than required, then the system is said to be ru ...007—North America tightly restrict the amount of Sulfur permitted in motor fuels. However, the expense is such that this is not practical in many developing
  22 KB (3,502 words) - 10:56, 28 March 2010
• Henney Kilowatt
  ...ly had a vested interest in shifting American automotive focus from fossil fuels to lead-cell batteries. Morrison McMullan, Jr., controller of Exide Batteri
  7 KB (1,077 words) - 09:28, 21 August 2009
• ACEA agreement
  ...http://www.transportenvironment.org/Article353.html Europe set to clean up fuels but stalls on cars]
  10 KB (1,420 words) - 09:04, 24 May 2010

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