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All About Energy and Diesel Vehicles
Petrol and diesel have long been rival energies for road transport applications. Traditionally, petrol engines were preferred for cars because they were faster and...
All About Energy and LPG Vehicles
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is produced from the separation of gases in gas fields, and as a by-product of refining crude oils. It is mostly propane, and also...
All About Energy for Air Travel
Air travel is by no means a modern invention; Leonardo Da Vinci designed a flying machine in the 15th century. Various methods of powering flight have been tried...
Electric Vehicles and the Environment
The concept of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is not new. Experimental electric carriages were being built as early as the 1830s and many variations...
Energy and Hybrid Vehicles Explained
Around one-fifth of the UK’s total CO2 emissions is produced by road vehicles, and roughly half of that – amounting to some 19 million tonnes of carbon dioxide – is...
Energy and Petrol Vehicles
Of all the types of power unit that were tried out during the early years of the automobile, it was eventually the petrol-fuelled four-stroke internal combustion...
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles
Fuel cell cars are an emerging technology. At present, numerous prototypes are being developed, some are currently being tested on the roads and a few manufacturers...
Sail Power for Ships
We tend not to think of shipping as a big contributor to climate change. But there are around 50,000 merchant ships around the world, and between them they emit some...
Steam Powered Vehicles
Inventors started taking a great interest in steam as a form of energy around the end of the 17th century, and it was only a matter of time before they started...
The Benefits of Biofuel and Flexfuel
Throughout the developed world, cars and commercial vehicles use a great deal of fossil fuel and release pollution into the atmosphere – notably CO2, thought to be...
