OJAI VALLEY - A diesel mechanic for years, Joel Woolf was preparing a speech about his job when he brushed up on diesel engine history and learned the engines ran on peanut oil when first introduced at the 1900 Paris World's Fair. Woolf started testing vegetable oil as fuel with engines in his own backyard. He and his wife, Rebecca, were astounded when they discovered the liquid easily worked as an alternative to diesel fuel.
So how do you get an engine that has (literally) half the amount of cylinders as a typical production V8 to provide equivalent performance? While it's been obvious for decades in Europe, it recently has become a sobering reality here in the states: You with a turbocharger. With one-third of GM's North American engine volume being four-cylinders by 2011, and 21 percent of the four-cylinder volume will be turbocharged (a seven-fold increase over today's volume of turbo engines), turbochargers are fast becoming the American automakers' answer to producing small powerful engines while still delivering decent fuel economy and cleaner emissions. A turbocharged engine uses a radial fan pump driven by the engine's exhaust that consists of a turbine and a compressor on a shared shaft ...
...Because the history of American automobile production has revolved aro... icons Gottlieb Daimler and Rudolf Diesel investigated increasing the power of their engines...
EPA has granted the California Air Resources Board (CARB) its request for a waiver of preemption and authorization to adopt and enforce California's Truck Idling Requirements. CARB's Truck Idling Requirements apply to new California-certified 2008 and subsequent model year heavy-duty diesel engines in heavy-duty diesel vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating over 14,000 pounds, and to in-use diesel- fueled commercial vehicles with gross vehicle weight ratings over 10,000 pounds that are equipped with sleeper berths.
... of the statute and its legislative history indicate that California's regulations, and Califo...
MaxxForce ([R] ) P Brand Diesel Gen-Sets to Serve Global Markets . DUBAI, United A... for decades, has nearly a century of history designing, engineering and manufacturing diesel en...
... and began enforcing rules that regulate diesel-powered engines. In particular, the District's reg... also EMA, 88 F.3d at 1079 (describing a "history of detailed state regulation of stationary sources...
Innovation strategy helps a company in three ways: exciting its customers, outperforming competitors, and building a new product portfolio. The literature describes many frameworks for innovation strategy but offers little detail about how to implement them. This paper identifies 12 ways of visualizing innovation strategies: platform offering, co-creation, cycle time reduction, brand value enhancement, technology leveraging, future-proofing, lean development, partnering, innovation mutation, creative destruction, market segmentation, and acquisition. These strategies allow 100 leading global companies to dominate their markets and outperform the competition through innovation.
... connect with examples from business history and engage with the power of the 12 innovation str...It started as a search engine, then extended its platform by integrating Gmail, ... combustion engines, gasoline hybrids, diesel (the preferred option in Europe), fuel cellbased v...
NEW YORK - Bye-bye bunny. The Rabbit name has been consigned to history. In its place is the sixth generation Golf and GTI, which first debuted at the Paris Motor Show last fall, and made its U.S. debut at this year's New York International Auto Show. Aside from fresh new styling, the 2010 Golf will feature a 175-horsepower 2.5- liter five-cylinder or an optional 140-horsepower 2.0 turbo-diesel engine already used in the Jetta. Joining the Golf is the new GTI, which gets a 200-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine mated to a standard six-speed manual transmission or optional six-speed dual clutch transmission. How good is it? Fifty-nine automotive journalists from twenty-five countries chose the 2009 World Car of the Year. NEW YORK Bye-bye, bunny. The Rabbit name has be...
Diesels: A rear view Heres a look at the history of diesel engines from their roots in industrial machinery and farm equipment to a higher-tech future: 1893 German engineer Rudolph Diesel develops engine. 1923 Benz & Cie. introduces diesel truck with a 50- horsepower engine. 1936 Hindenburg, the German zeppelin best known for its fiery demise, begins regular passenger service with four diesel engines that drive the airship about 80 miles an hour. 1958 Mercedes-Benz brings first diesel to U.S. market, the rounded, pokey 190D. 1978 GM rolls out large diesel cars in its Cadillac and Oldsmobile divisions. 1978 Diesel C111 Aero Racer, a Mercedes-Benz research car, sets speed records averaging 195 mph for 12 hours. 1981 Diesels share of the U.S. market peaks at 6 percent, as gas prices in Ma...
...In 2001, Savya Rafai, an engineer and a manager at DaimlerChrysler, noted the burgeo...Around 2001 in India, diesel fuel was significantly subsidized, so it was much ... be "Chanakya" after a hero in India's history. The result was that the typically very high inves...
...US Destroyers, An Illustrated History, Norman Freidman, US Naval Institute Press, 1982. ... economy was due mainly to a combination of diesel propulsion and a very flexible engineering plant c...
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