Expect future cars to help motorists garner maximum mileage by leveraging technology like the eco-tutoring systems found in many hybrids, wider use of tire-pressure, oil life and engine-tuning monitoring systems and more-sophisticated GPS guidance that can select less-congested routes.
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But it's one thing to put people in uniform, and another thing to have clear command structure, or the capacity to move troops from point A to point B, or the capacity to make sure that the troop carrier from point A to point B has got the necessary air in its tires or oil in its engine.
Lowes, who started on pole, took the win when leader Graeme Gowland retired with a blown engine which left oil on the track and brought out the red flag.
As for the other incidents that have beset the type over the past few months -- a fan shaft failure on an engine, an oil leak, a windshield crack -- all can safely be put down to teething problems.
Then we did it again in the 20th century with the convergence of communication and energy: Centralized electricity especially the telephone and then later radio and television became the communication vehicles to manage a more dispersed Second Industrial Revolution, organized around the oil-powered internal combustion engine, suburban construction and the creation of a mass consumer society.
In Venezuela , another elected autocrat, Hugo Chavez, is turning his oil-rich nation into an engine for regional instability and anti-American policies.
Describing public transport providers as "the oil of Cornwall's social engine", Mr Biscoe said he was very pleased the matter had been resolved satisfactorily.
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An engine change and a subsequent oil leak hampered his practice on Saturday and stopped him going out in qualifying.
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With the treated oil comes a warranty for some internal engine parts.
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Troubles dating back just four months include reports of an oil leak, a fuel leak, engine cracks and a damaged cockpit window.
But the whaling industry began its long decline more than 150 years ago, as demand for its products which ranged from candles to lamp oil, corset whalebone, cosmetics and engine lubricants evaporated with the appearance of petrochemicals, steel and plastics.
Saudi Arabia has been one of the most radicalizing forces in the Middle East at the same time that it has been the steady engine behind the world's oil economy.
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Oil was discovered leaking from a generator on an engine at a Japanese airport, and a crack appeared in a cockpit window of a plane en route from Tokyo to western Japan, a spokeswoman for All Nippon Airways said.
The continent's primary industrial engine imports 60% of its gas and oil needs.
The man who invented the diesel engine more than a century ago knew vegetable oil would be a good fuel source.
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It is powered by an engine which drives a hydraulic pump to send oil under high pressure around its plumbing in order to animate its limbs.
Key to the program's long-term success will be the death mandated for the clunker: After its oil is drained and replaced with sodium silicate, the engine is run until it seizes.
China imports vast quantities of crude oil besides using humongous quantities of coal to keep its economic engine humming.
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You can count up 5.8 million BTUs (that's how many BTUs a barrel of oil yields) from a wood stove, or a diesel engine, or a microprocessor, or a laser.
The very first engine that Rudolf Diesel built in 1893 ran on peanut oil.
The very first diesel engine that Rudolf Diesel built in 1893 ran on peanut oil.
Nevertheless, conventional hybrids are still locked into the oil economy, with a drive shaft directly connected to a gasoline engine.
You can damage your engine if you're not careful to use the right oil filter and replace the oil-drain plug without stripping its threads, or forget a leak-stopping gasket.
United mechanics who inspected the engine found that two shop towels had been used to cover openings in the oil sump area, instead of protective caps.
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Relying on oil and gas wealth, the country has yielded only a handful of entrepreneurial successes: search engine Yandex, e-mail service Mail.ru, cyber security giant Kaspersky Labs, and cloud computing company Parallels.
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