Meaning of diesel-electric | Babel Free

Definitions

Describing a power system in which a diesel engine powers an electrical generator.

not-comparable

Examples

“In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work.”

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