Sustainability

The new NSK ball bearings have been specifically developed in order to enable electric and hybrid vehicle engines to reach very high speeds. Let’s go deeper into purely technical aspects by saying that, in addition to increasing the engine speed, the bearings reduce energy consumption per distance t...

Texaco Delo 600 ADF 15W-40 ISOCLEAN Certified Lubricant with OMNIMAX is an API CK-4 performance heavy-duty engine oil. Just to clarify, OMNI in latin means ‘for all’ and MAX is the short name of Maximum. Now you can understand what Texaco thinks about its latest release, specifically for...

AGM (Absorbent Glass Material) auxiliary batteries for start&stop systems have been part of the Italian company’s product range for quite a long time. In particular, since 2010, Fiamm has produced eight million units at the Chinese facility in Wuhan as well as in Italy, in the city of Avezzano. ...

Diesel algae and LumoFuel. We mentioned this smart approach to biodiesel almost ten years ago (biofuels? Read more…). Now it’s time to talk about LumoFuel. What is this? It is a washing machine sized household ‘bioreactor’ which uses algae to turn CO2 and sunlight into a usable diesel th...

Volvo Penta Stage V. It may seem out of place, or out of time, to talk about Stage V just now that the EU moratorium has become official. Yet at Volvo Penta, where the wait for the Big Bang of electrification, scheduled for 2021, hasn’t waned, attention to reducing exhaust emissions is also, a...

Landini and Kohler, both companies are from Italy, and they share the same cultural framework. Based in Reggio Emilia province, in the Italian motor valley, they are just half a car from each other. Under the spotlights, and under the blue bonnets, the Kohler KDI TCD2504, the first to inaugurate Koh...

Dellorto doesn’t just mean carburetors for motorcycles and throttle bodies, variable intake systems, compressor by-pass valves and so on. Dellorto is actively involved in the electrification strategy. Dellorto and the thermal management: EXV What is EXV? Dellorto official said: A key component...

Siemens has for years been committed to preaching the reasons for hybrid technology even among marine applications. From commercial has also established itself in pleasure. Following part of the interview published on Diesel International, which you can find in this PDF. Hybrid propulsion projects i...

MAN Energy Solutions has completed the expansion of the ‘Sund’ power plant near Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, and successfully handed the plant over to local energy supplier. Now, four MAN 9L51/60 engines have been successfully integrated into the islands’ hybrid energy-system an...

Wärtsilä (here, a post of ours about the cooperation with Liebherr) and Vantaa Energy, a Finnish energy company, have signed in May an agreement on a joint concept feasibility study for a power-to-gas facility at Vantaa Energy’s waste-to-energy -plant in the city of Vantaa in the capital region. The...