Sentence examples for petroleum engine from inspiring English sources

But through the summer 2008 season, the Miss Geico turbine had beaten the Bud Light petroleum engine in most races.

While two electric motors propel the Yo, a small petroleum engine that can burn either gasoline or natural gas will run nearly continuously to generate the electricity they consume.

The Scuderi Group, in West Springfield, Mass., has a hybrid engine design that compresses air and burns petroleum fuel in separate cylinders and uses some compressed air to extend the petroleum engine.

The advantage, they say, is in the small petroleum engine's operating at its most efficient rate at all times, while the electrical capacitors absorb or discharge energy to accommodate start-and-stop city driving.

Seebold drove a 50-foot Mercury named Bud Light with dual 1,200-horsepower 1,200-horsepowers.

Implementation of new petroleum diesel engine combustion and after-treatment technologies, designed to decrease specific exhaust components such as particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, will require re-evaluation of the emissions from biodiesel exhaust.

But the familiar petroleum-fueled engine is being reconfigured for a considerably different role in the electric propulsion era.

Several existing petroleum-fuelled engine configurations have been modified by taking care to observe that the converted system does not need substantial hardware modifications.

That makes those two countries the world's most important test cases for the idea that electric motors and batteries can supplant the petroleum-burning engines that have powered cars for more than a century.

Then, the electric motor, the light bulb, the internal combustion engine, petroleum, natural gas and numerous new chemicals all came on the scene -- rearranging the economy and making it vastly more productive.

Although several of the queen's cars have been converted to run on cleaner-burning liquefied petroleum gas, the engine of the new car is expected to use only gasoline.