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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  [[Petroleum electric hybrid vehicle|Petroleum electric hybrid vehicles]] make use of both an on-board [[rechargeable energy storage system]] (RESS ...lower floors, which is useful for buses. Some 8x8 all-wheel drive military vehicles use individual wheel motors.
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• Fiat
  ...rs including [[Giovanni Agnelli]]. Fiat has also manufactured [[railroad]] vehicles, [[tanks]] and [[aircraft]]. As of 2009, Fiat is the world's sixth largest ...focused on the industrial production of cars, industrial and agricultural vehicles. Over time it has diversified into many other fields, and the group now has
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• Formula SAE
  ...a guide, engineering students had to design and build small, "Indy-style" vehicles using the same stock engine used in the ''Popular Mechanics'' article. Thir * [[Basic Utility Vehicle]]
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• History of the automobile
  Vehicles that can be considered [[automobiles]] may have been demonstrated as early ''Also see'' [[History of steam road vehicles]]
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• Fully-automatic transmission
  ...r than manual transmissions. In most cars (except US family, luxury, sport-utility vehicle, and minivan models) they have usually been extra-cost options for Some current hybrid vehicles, notably those of [[Toyota]], [[Lexus]] and [[Ford Motor Company]], have an
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...r plant based oils have also seen occasional use. A number of other hybrid vehicles use hydrogen fuel. ...also brother of author [[Herman Wouk]] ). Wouk's work with electric hybrid vehicles in the 1960s and 1970s earned the title as the "Godfather of the Hybrid".
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• Electronic stability control
  ...estimates 5,300-9,600 traffic fatalities could be avoided if all passenger vehicles were equipped with the feature. According to the [[IIHS]] one-third of fata ...stimates it will prevent 5,300-9,600 annual fatalities once all passenger vehicles are equipped with the system.
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• Maserati
  ...n borrowed Maserati expertise and engines for the [[Citroën SM]] and other vehicles, and Maseratis also incorporated Citroën technology, particularly in [[hyd The Maserati engine and its associated gearbox have been used in other vehicles such as Special Rally prepared Citroën DS, as used by Bob Neyret in Bandam
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• Bicycle
  ...were called ''[[velocipede]]s'', and included many types of human-powered vehicles. One of these, the scooter-like ''[[dandy horse]]'' of the French Comte de ...n countries such as Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, the traditional utility bicycle remained a mainstay of transportation; its design changed only grad
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• Diesel engine
  ...heaters (electric resistive heaters in the engine block) plugged into the utility grid are often used when an engine is shut down for extended periods (more ...[Denso Corporation]], developed the Common Rail Fuel System for Heavy Duty Vehicles and finally turned into its first practical use on their ECD-U2 common Rail
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• Motorcycle
  ...ront wheel, but these were prone to rollovers.) ATVs are used off-road for utility and recreation. However, a proper motorcycle has fewer than four wheels in ...les/simosthesis.pdf The control and stability analysis of two-wheeled road vehicles]:
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• Car handling
  ...icles with at least three wheels, but some of it may apply to other ground vehicles.) ...el steering]] has begun to be used on road cars (Some WW II reconnaissance vehicles had it). It relieves the effect of angular inertia by starting the whole ca
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• History of the bicycle
  Vehicles for human [[transport]] that have two wheels and require balancing by the r ...in [[Dover]] successfully manufactured a range of treadle operated 4 wheel vehicles and exported them worldwide in the 1850s.
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• List of automotive superlatives
  ...section) will be limited to automobiles built after World War II. Many odd vehicles emerged in the early days of the automobile industry. There is [[#Pre-War|a ...umers for their personal use on public roads - no commercial or industrial vehicles are eligible
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• Fiat Panda
  ...anda was designed as a modern day "peasant car": A cheap, basic, no-frills utility vehicle that would be easy to use and maintain. The car can be seen as a la Many design features denote the Panda's "utility car" role. Examples include a 7-position adjustable rear seat which could b
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• List of James Bond gadgets
  ...se. The [[James Bond]] books and movies have featured exotic equipment and vehicles, which often prove to be critically useful. ...gadgets used by others. For his gadget vehicles, see [[List of James Bond vehicles]].
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