Powered by two diesel engines, this giant truck weighs in at an incredible 360-tonnes and is capable of moving 450-tonnes of rubble in one go.
In Texas, pickups are the tools that enable ranchers, farmers and others to do their jobs more efficiently. So when Ford, Chevy or Ram crank up the engine power, you bet it gets attention.
Dealers will receive an average payout of $1.85 million apiece in the settlement, according to filings made Friday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Volkswagen AG has agreed to pay as much as $1.2 billion to its 652 U.S. dealers as compensation for a long emissions-cheating scheme, deepening penalties the German auto maker faces.
“It is an all-new SUV from the ground up and one that takes on the industry’s biggest competitors with a stronger architecture, greater efficiency and more technology,” Rick Spina, the vehicle’s executive chief engineer, said in a statement.
The 2018 Equinox will be the first Chevy to be sold in North America with a fully turbocharged lineup of engines. Buyers can choose from a 1.5-liter turbo, a 2.0-liter turbo mated with a nine-speed automatic transmission or a 1.6-liter turbodiesel that GM estimates will achieve 40 mpg in highway driving.
The diesel will help Chevy as it begins selling the Equinox in about 115 new markets, vs. North America only today.
CK-4 oils are a direct replacement for current CJ-4 oils and are backward compatible with today’s diesel engines.
ExxonMobil’s CK-4 line will include synthetic Mobil Delvac 1 ESP 5W-40, Mobil Delvac Extreme – a premium synthetic blend – and Mobil Delvac 1300 Super.
Available in a range of viscosity grades, Mobil Delvac CK-4 oils offer improved oxidation resistance, shear stability and aeration control compared to today’s CJ-4 oils.
FA-4 oils will mostly be recommended for use in model year 2017 and newer model engines. ExxonMobil’s FA-4 products will include Mobil Delvac Extreme FE premium synthetic blend and Mobil Delvac Super FE.
The tests reportedly show that the vehicles in question (Fiat 500x, Jeep Renegade, Fiat Doblo) feature a software-controlled system that shuts down the emissions-control systems around 22 minutes after the diesel vehicles are turned on. In the current European test procedure, standard emissions tests run 20 minutes.
So, the systems that the KBA claim to have uncovered seem to have been designed solely to cheat the emissions tests.
A preliminary settlement for Volkswagen and Audi TDI diesel cars with 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engines is awaiting approval by a federal judge. But the Volkswagen Group and U.S. regulators have not made as much progress in addressing affected VW, Audi, and Porsche TDI models with 3.0-liter V-6 diesel...
Songpol says the fuel generated from the plastic can be used for petrol or diesel generators, engines or even gas or jet turbines.
“We have been successfully producing quality fuels such as petrol, kerosene, diesel and fuel oil with lower emission and the technology also closes the loop of plastic product lifecycle compared to the current available waste disposal treatments worldwide,” he says. “The fuel can be used effectively in systems like power generators or in machine engines”.
“Coal rollers” alter their diesel trucks so they spew thick black smoke, sometimes in the direction of joggers, cyclists and hybrid cars.
Volkswagen AG is nearing an agreement to take a big stake in truck maker Navistar International Corp.
Ideally, Europe's carmakers would stop spending billions on combustion. But they can't.
CK-4 oils, a replacement for the CJ-4 oils currently on the market, will be fully backwards compatible with diesel engines currently using CJ-4. FA-4 features a lower viscosity and will be recommended almost exclusively for 2017 and newer model year engines. The new generation oil blends are expected to improve fuel economy and could lead to engine-wear benefits.
Last week, the Obama administration finalized the second round of greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for commercial trucks.
Even though the rule – commonly referred to as Phase 2 – was mostly expected, it doesn’t make the regulatory pill any easier to swallow for drivers and fleets already on the hook for implementing electronic stability control and electronic logs, while speed limiters await them on the horizon.
While riding on top of the hill, the engineer from Ford tells me to keep driving towards the boulder until it disappears from view.
It’s not the most comfortable feeling while driving a new 2017 F-250 FX4. I mean, you know the rock’s there and you don’t want to hit it, yet the man in charge riding shotgun says to keep heading straight towards it.
Fair enough. I’m going to blindly follow his lead—sort of. As I inch towards the obstacle, Ford Vehicle Integration Engineer Andre Kunynetz taps the 8-inch touchscreen in the dashboard and the boulder that I no longer see through the windshield now pops into view on the screen.
Propelled by four turbocharged diesel engines, the Airlander is designed to use less fuel than a plane, but carry heavier loads than conventional airships. Its developer, Hybrid Air Vehicles, says it can reach 16,000 feet, travel at up to 90 mph and stay aloft for up to two weeks.
Horses, bulls, and jungle cats are the best-known automotive mascots, but one lesser-known brand sports the animal kingdom’s king of brute force. That vehicle is the Rhino, made by US Specialty Vehicles in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. The Rhino GX is its answer to drivers whose hearts were broken by the demise of the Hummer. For such empty souls, the Rhino will fill a void of quite substantial size.
When it introduced the current-generation F-150 half-ton pickup truck for the 2015 model year, one of the major points Ford touted was fuel economy. It claimed the light-duty F-150's aluminum body saved over 700 pounds compared to previous steel body, helping to improve efficiency. When it came...
Volkswagen has yet to get modifications to reduce the emissions of TDI diesel cars with illegal "defeat device" software approved by U.S. regulators. But while it continues to wrestle with that problem, VW is undertaking a separate program to reduce emissions from its gasoline models. Particulate...
“While the first half of 2016 has been challenging for the industry, trucking is coming off two very strong years and we are optimistic about the future.”
With its 2016 Range Rover Sport Td6, Land Rover has proved that diesel still has a place in this world, albeit one that's slightly less adventuresome.
EVs are unlikely to make any dent in our oil consumption in the foreseeable future as the majority of new cars on the road are still equipped with internal combustion engines
It has long been the stereotype that pickup trucks are built for the tough types, the kind of people who can prepare the fields and plant the crops but aren’t clever enough to market them in the store with a catchy tagline.
