Word: dieselization
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...luck. A fleet of fuel-efficient hybrid and clean-diesel models is arriving at dealerships over the next few months--and they aren't your typical tin-box green machines. Automakers are delivering what seemed unthinkable just a few years ago--midsize cars and SUVs with the horsepower, performance and size that Americans expect, plus improved fuel economy. Hybrid cars are propelled by a combination of a gas engine and an electric motor--a complicated technology that still draws blank stares, even though hybrids have been on the market for nearly five years. The latest versions, however, might be summed...
...rebel blockade achieved its immediate intent. Roads were jammed across the country, the capital ran short of diesel and gas, and the price of vegetables?most of which were left to rot in fields?soared to 30 times the normal level. Some 300 tourists nationwide were left stranded with little option but to leave Nepal on foot. They included 200 Indians, who trudged south over the border to safety. Elsewhere, Maoists stoned the vehicle of a French couple attempting to return to Kathmandu from western Nepal, and the Nepalese army had to escort nine British travelers driving back from Chitwan...
...fueling station, located across the river near the football stadium, has been offering Harvard’s diesel vehicles 24-hour refueling services at a wholesale price since its Jan. 5 completion, Harris said...
Harris said that because Harvard vehicles used over 60,000 gallons of diesel last year, he expects to recover the $60,000 in the next five years...
...Harvard procures new vehicles, UOS will also look to replace gasoline vehicles, which compose roughly 65 percent of Harvard’s fleet, with diesel vehicles that can utilize the new fueling technology...