Green Car Congress
AUGUST 4, 2011
However, while Mazda plans to offer hybrid vehicles in the medium-term, its engineers are pushing hard to increase the efficiencies of both the gasoline and diesel platforms, moving toward what they call “the ideal Internal Combustion Engine.” liter MZR gasoline engine. Energy balance in an internal combustion engine.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. Weis et al.
Plugs and Cars
JULY 21, 2007
A month or so ago word was Toyota was postponing the new generation Lithium Prius. Now, however, we continue to see more information on Toyota's own prototype plug-in Lithium Prius. Essentially an acknowledgement that a plug-in hybrid is better all around than the gasoline-dependent hybrids that you can 't plug in available today.
Plugs and Cars
JUNE 2, 2007
In a Prius or Civic Hybrid at 50mpg, the trip would have cost about $30 in gas, tolls and parking in Sacto. At 20 lbs of carbon emissions per gallon of gasoline burned (US Energy Information Administration estimate), a Prius or Civic would have released about 80 lbs of carbon for this one round trip. We’ve seen this all before.
Plug In Partners
SEPTEMBER 6, 2006
Today’s hybrid cars, such as the Toyota Prius, use electricity generated by gasoline-fueled engines. This would result in a gasoline savings of 1.14 The bottom line is, electricity is cleaner, cheaper and domestic ,” Geller said. There’s a ceiling on that. That’s why we always encourage our customers to conserve energy.”
Plugs and Cars
OCTOBER 27, 2007
Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. Third party converters have spent time and resources tweaking their plug-in hybrids to meet ARB testing written with gasoline-only hybrids in mind.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2017
liter inline-four-cylinder D-4S gasoline engine and a new 3.5-liter With its long-stroke and high compression ratio, multi-hole direct fuel injectors, variable cooling system and VVT-iE, this high-output powerplant takes the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine to an increased level of thermal efficiency. Powertrains.
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