Vehicle equipment

Vehicle equipment

Industry: Automotive

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cost competitive

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A new technology, when manufactured in automotive production volumes, should be perceived by the consumer as economically attractive when compared with conventional automotive technologies.

Any internal-combustion engine in which air is compressed to a sufficiently high temperature to ignite fuel injected into a cylinder. A diesel engine differs from other internal-combustion engines, ...

diesel equivalent gallon (DEG)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

The volume of natural gas it takes to equal the energy content of one gallon of diesel fuel. Since natural gas is not a liquid, its volume is measured in cubic feet, rather than gallons. Therefore, ...

diesel fuel

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Petroleum products normally used as fuel for diesel engines are components of crude oil having heavy hydrocarbons containing at least 12 to 16 carbon atoms per molecule. These heavier fractions are ...

dimethyl ether (DME)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A synthetic diesel fuel derived from natural gas, an excellent candidate for direct-injection engines. DME contains no sulfur and burns more cleanly than conventional diesel fuel, so it produces ...

direct injection (DI)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

In DI, fuel is injected directly into the cylinder, as is typical in a diesel engine (also called direct fuel injection). Most other internal combustion engines use either carburetion (in which the ...