The Auto Channel
The Largest Independent Automotive Research Resource
The Largest Independent Automotive Research Resource
Official Website of the New Car Buyer

News By Topic: Vehicles and the Environment: Clean Diesel

Bosch Announces Clean Diesel Technology On 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Bosch Announces Clean Diesel Technology On 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Bosch, a leading global technology supplier, announced its clean diesel technology will be featured in the new 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which debuted January 14 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The vehicle's new 3.0-liter EcoDiesel V-6 is equipped with a Bosch Common Rail Diesel Fuel Injection ... Continue reading

Nearly 1 Million Natural Gas Trucks and Buses Will Be Sold Worldwide from 2012 to 2019, Forecasts Pike Research

Nearly 1 Million Natural Gas Trucks and Buses Will Be Sold Worldwide from 2012 to 2019, Forecasts Pike Research

Because trucks and buses use significant amounts of fuel and tend to emit high levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs), diesel and natural gas (NG) vehicles are increasingly attractive options in these commercial markets. At the same time, the rebounding construction industry is pushing growth in the overall truck market whi ... Continue reading

Audi Partners With Joule To Make Future Mobility Fuels With Micro-organisms

Audi Partners With Joule To Make Future Mobility Fuels With Micro-organisms

</p><p>By Henny Hemmes <br>Senior European Editor <br>The Auto Channel </p><p>THE HAGUE, January 9, 2013; In the quest to reduce fuel consumption and thus CO2 emissions of cars, Audi is developing synthetic natural gas, which the German car manufacturer refers to as Audi e-gas, (<a href=http://www.theautochannel.com/ne ... Continue reading

Most Economical Škoda Octavia Emits Only 89 g CO2/km, Equivalent to a Mileage of 3.4 l/100 km

Most Economical Škoda Octavia Emits Only 89 g CO2/km, Equivalent to a Mileage of 3.4 l/100 km

The third generation of the ŠKODA Octavia uses a newly developed generation of modern petrol and diesel engines. Compared with their predecessors, fuel consumption and emission values of the engines are lower by up to 23 per cent. All in all, there will be eight engine versions available: four TSI petrol engines and f ... Continue reading

2013 Audi Q7 TDI quattro Review By Steve Purdy

2013 Audi Q7 TDI quattro Review By Steve Purdy

MORE INFO Audi Q7 Specs, Prices, Reviews, Comparisons In Audi Buyers Guide (1997-Present) Is The 2013 Audi Q7 Your Perfect New Car Match? By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Michigan Bureau Now, here’s a concept I can sink my teeth into – a large, luxurious, 7-passenger SUV with torquey diesel engine, all-wheel ... Continue reading

German Automotive Companies Start Clean-diesel Offensive in USA

German Automotive Companies Start Clean-diesel Offensive in USA

Economical, clean, and powerful - joint website for diesels Six German automotive companies - the passenger car manufacturers Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen, and the supplier Bosch - are starting their first ever joint information campaign for "clean diesels" in the USA. Under the slogan "Clean Diesel. Clea ... Continue reading

ANSYS Drives Design Of New Mazda SKYACTIV-D Racing Engine

ANSYS Drives Design Of New Mazda SKYACTIV-D Racing Engine

Mazda racing teams will zip around the track with greater fuel efficiency and fewer emissions thanks to the motorsports version of its new revolutionary SKYACTIV-D clean-diesel engine, designed by SpeedSource Race Engineering using ANSYS simulation technology. SpeedSource, a motorsports research and development company ... Continue reading

2012/2013 Volkswagen Golf Drive and Review By Larry Nutson

2012/2013 Volkswagen Golf Drive and Review By Larry Nutson

2012/2013 Volkswagen Golf Continuous Improvement By Larry Nutson Senior Editor, Chicago Bureau The Auto Channel (DSC_1169) Volkswagen’s Golf arrived on the automotive scene 38 years ago in 1974. Now after having sold over 29 million around the world the Golf (aka: Rabbit) just keeps getting better. A little like t ... Continue reading

The Middle East will soon lead the world in developing sustainable energy, says an author of World Energy Council/Oliver Wyman report

The Middle East will soon lead the world in developing sustainable energy, says an author of World Energy Council/Oliver Wyman report

DOHA, Qatar--The Middle East may soon overtake other nations and become the global role model in developing sustainable energy, according to an author of a new report released today by the World Energy Council and Oliver Wyman at the COP 18 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar. The World Energy Trile ... Continue reading

All New 2014 Mazda6 Sedan, SKYACTIV-D Clean Deisel Engine Makes North Ameican Debut in Los Angeles +VIDEO

All New 2014 Mazda6 Sedan, SKYACTIV-D Clean Deisel Engine Makes North Ameican Debut in Los Angeles +VIDEO

The wait is over: Mazda's SKYACTIV-D 2.2-liter clean diesel engine has arrived, hand-in-hand with the all-new 2014 Mazda6, the latest --and sexiest -- beauty to emerge from the brand's KODO design-inspired lineup. Making its North American debut today at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the highly-anticipated mid-size sedan ... Continue reading

BMW Highlights at the Los Angeles International Auto Show +VIDEO

BMW Highlights at the Los Angeles International Auto Show +VIDEO

Woodcliff Lake, NJ – November 28, 2012… BMW today presentation at this year’s Los Angeles International Auto Show press days. From the exotic BMW Concept i8 Roadster to the versatile new BMW Concept K2 Powder Ride based on the popular new BMW X1with graphics designed by Designworks USA, the company will ... Continue reading

Volvo Car Corporation Ramps up Assembly of the World's First Diesel Plug-in Hybrid

Volvo Car Corporation Ramps up Assembly of the World's First Diesel Plug-in Hybrid

Volvo Car Corporation is now ramping up production of the new Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid. After the initial batch of 1,000 model year 2013 cars, production will increase to 4,000-6,000 cars as of model year 2014. The assembly of the world's first diesel plug-in hybrid has been successfully integrated on the same line as ... Continue reading

Green Automotive Company Announces Order by Subsidiary Newport Coach Works to Build Buses for Don Brown Bus Sales

Green Automotive Company Announces Order by Subsidiary Newport Coach Works to Build Buses for Don Brown Bus Sales

Green Automotive Company (OTC:GACR) today announced that its subsidiary Newport Coach Works, Inc. signed a definitive distribution agreement for the manufacturing of buses over a two year period with Don Brown Bus Sales, Inc., one of North America's leading bus distributors, beginning November 1, 2012. Newport Coach Wo ... Continue reading

Nearly 80 Million Clean Diesel Vehicles Will be Sold Worldwide From 2012 to 2018, Forecasts Pike Research

Nearly 80 Million Clean Diesel Vehicles Will be Sold Worldwide From 2012 to 2018, Forecasts Pike Research

Diesel cars have long been tremendously popular in Europe, where high fuel prices mean that the price premium of a diesel car can be paid off quickly. However, other regions that have not traditionally been strong diesel markets, such as North America, are now starting to open up--particularly as increasingly stringe ... Continue reading

Aemetis Announces Expanded, Global Renewable Jet and Diesel Fuel Technology License Agreement with Chevron Lummus Global

Aemetis Announces Expanded, Global Renewable Jet and Diesel Fuel Technology License Agreement with Chevron Lummus Global

Aemetis, Inc. (OTCPK: AMTX), an advanced fuels and renewable chemical company, announced today that the company signed an expanded, global license agreement with Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) for the inexpensive, rapid production of renewable jet and diesel fuel by the conversion of existing biofuels and petroleum refine ... Continue reading

Search The Auto Channel

The Auto Channel content library (since 1996) has grown to become the world’s most extensive and complete interactive archive of automotive centric news, articles, reviews and intense event coverage, presented to viewers as Text, Video and Images.

The Auto Channel Content by Topic

Vehicle manufacturers and alt fuels.

Search The Auto Channel Content by Date Published

July 2025

    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    

Select Another Month