diesel
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"This will be temporary disruption with the construction but then permanent disruption because of the diesel generators, the noises, the cooling fans, things like that."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Heavy-duty trucks, which traditionally run on diesel, are an outsize source of air pollution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Normally, the most expensive parts of filling stations are left undamaged by Russian attacks, such as petrol and diesel tanks underground.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Green is good, but it’s better wildlife encounters that might eventually relegate diesel to travel’s endangered species list.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The noise now became increasingly loud, its diesel hum goading everyone’s desperate hopes and deepest worries.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
Replacing the 200,000 buses with another round of health-hazardous diesels would cost between $60 billion to $80 billion; after accounting for rollout costs, full electric replacement would cost about 2.5 times as much.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
But in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 are not allowed in the zone.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
Had they been conventional diesels, they would have created a smelly cacophony as they idled.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
Non-profit RMI said the IRA's up to $40,000 Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicle tax credit "will turbocharge adoption of electric medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks." and will electric trucks cheaper to operate than diesels in most cases.
From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2022
“She’s forty-six feet. Twin diesels, eight hundred horses.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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