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An alternative fuel vehicle is a vehicle that runs on a fuel other than traditional petroleum fuels (petrol or Diesel fuel); and also refers to any technology of powering an engine that does not involve solely petroleum (e.g. electric car, hybrid electric vehicles, solar powered).

Because of a combination of factors, such as environmental concerns, high oil prices and the potential for peak oil, development of cleaner alternative fuels and advanced power systems for vehicles has become a high priority for many governments and vehicle manufacturers around the world.

Cummins, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products.

Cummins also services engines and related equipment, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems.

Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, United States, Cummins sells in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 600 company-owned and independent distributors and approximately 6,000 dealers.

Cummins reported net income of $1.65 billion on sales of $19.2 billion in 2014.

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine) is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel that has been injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the high temperature which a gas achieves (i.e. the air) when greatly compressed (adiabatic compression).

Diesel engines work by compressing only the air.

This increases the air temperature inside the cylinder to such a high degree that it ignites atomised diesel fuel that is injected into the combustion chamber.

This contrasts with spark-ignition engines such as a petrol engine (gasoline engine) or gas engine (using a gaseous fuel as opposed to petrol), which use a spark plug to ignite an air-fuel mixture.

In diesel engines, glow plugs (combustion chamber pre-warmers) may be used to aid starting in cold weather, or when the engine uses a lower compression-ratio, or both.

The original diesel engine operates on the "constant pressure" cycle of gradual combustion and produces no audible knock.

In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy for use in an external circuit.

Sources of mechanical energy include steam turbines, gas turbines, water turbines, internal combustion engines and even hand cranks.

The first electromagnetic generator, the Faraday disk, was built in 1831 by British scientist Michael Faraday.

Generators provide nearly all of the power for electric power grids.

An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a heat engine where the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

In an internal combustion engine the expansion of the high-temperature and high-pressure gases produced by combustion applies direct force to some component of the engine.

The force is applied typically to pistons, turbine blades, rotor or a nozzle.

This force moves the component over a distance, transforming chemical energy into useful mechanical energy.