West paints other trains, including the Steam, Gas turbine, Electric, as well as first through sixth Generation Diesel Electric Locomotives.
Peugeot is planning to launch the first diesel electric hybrid.
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One prototype truck, which GM will soon deliver to the Army, is a diesel-electric hybrid that is 20% more fuel-efficient than the best diesel engines.
The ferry is part of a small fleet of diesel-electric boats first launched in 1888.
Far Solitaire is powered by a conventional diesel-electric system consisting of three engines connected to generators that run electric motors.
In the power systems business that manufactures and sells a variety of engines and diesel-electric locomotives, sales were driven by petroleum and rail applications.
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And Volvo's V60, which the company says is the world's first diesel-electric plug-in hybrid in production, offers a package of solutions to such drivers, he insists.
Perhaps coal handlers employed on diesel-electric locomotives, mafia goons controlling space at the municipal convention center or Broadway musicians paid even if the show doesn't need them.
It has a crew of 20 plus 24 scientists, and features a special hull that diverts bubbles that interfere with sonar operations, and a high-efficiency diesel-electric propulsion system.
Meanwhile, the four Lada-class diesel-electric submarines will be jointly designed and built by both countries, with two of them to be built in Russia and the other two in China.
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Whereas the Blue Train is pulled by no-nonsense diesel and electric engines, Rovos offers passengers a retro whiff of steam, though only for the first hour into or out of Pretoria.
Sure enough, a maglev project that would shuttle folks from Disneyland to Las Vegas at up to 300 miles-per-hour is now jousting with a cheaper diesel-electric alternative (dubbed DesertXpress) for support.
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In January GM (nyse: GM - news - people ) contracted to sell the Army a fleet of trucks powered by next-generation power plants like fuel cells and diesel-electric hybrids.
To that end, its city hall is covered in solar panels and there are plans to fit cosier insulation to local-government buildings, build four waste-to-energy plants and buy 500 hybrid diesel-electric buses by 2010.
Toyota is teaming up with BMW on diesel engines and electric batteries.
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The double-decker buses have climate control, free wi-fi and hybrid electric-diesel engines to save fuel.
It acts like a giant spark plug, busting apart a tiny portion of the diesel fuel with an electric charge so that the molecules rearrange themselves into carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
This week, Emanuel introduced an incentive program that will encourage private and public truck fleets to move away from diesel fuel in favor of electric power.
The SUV features a front-mounted diesel engine paired with an electric motor in a traditional hybrid configuration, plus a second, more powerful electric motor in the rear to drive those wheels in the back.
Stefanie Lang of Bernstein says this will force carmakers to work together on developing new technology: Toyota, for example, has agreed to work with Ford on hybrid sport-utility vehicles and with BMW on both electric batteries and diesel engines.
Add VPG to the growing list of recent green car failures: Bright Automotive (electric delivery vans) , Carbon Motors (clean diesel-powered police cars), Aptera Motors (three-wheeled electric cars), Coda Automotive (inexpensive electric sedans) and, arguably the most infamous, Fisker Automotive (plug-in hybrid sports cars).
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Hybrids use diesel power where there were no overhead electric cables so could be used across the network without having to change locomotives or crews.
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Those who travel in smaller groups or need a more flexible service will have access to a fleet of up to 4, 000 BMWs - ranging from motorbikes and electric-powered Minis to diesel-powered 5-series cars.
The two partners will work together to integrate MotoCyzysz's electric D1g1tal Dr1ve powertrain into otherwise diesel-thirsty Stark SUVs.
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The Electric Defender test vehicles swap the 2.2-liter, four-cylinder diesel engine and six-speed manual gearbox of the regular Defender 110 for a 70-kilowatt electric motor that puts out the equivalent of 94 horsepower and 243 foot-pounds of torque.
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There are very large opportunities for high-efficiency vehicles, which include electric, hybrid, high-efficiency diesel and high-efficiency gasoline.
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Refurbishment of class 318 electric trains and reliability improvements for class 170 diesel trains.
The good news is that so-called green transportation is a solution to a problem that is more contrived than real given the global oil boom and the emergence of natural gas, not electric motors, as the major alternative to gasoline and diesel.
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