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Ford Confirms Focus Production Ending In Europe By Year's End

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Americans would start seeing the hatchback appear in driveways by 2000. Rather than being a rear-drive pony car offering an array of gasoline-driven engines (including the desirable Essex 3.0-liter Designed to appeal to European tastes and serve as a successor to the Escort, the Focus won European Car of the Year for 1999.

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Promising Delphi 1st-gen Gasoline Direct Injection Compression Ignition engine meeting ultra fuel efficient program targets

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In a presentation at the SAE 2014 High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium and then in a paper given at SAE 2014 World Congress, Mark Sellnau, Engineering Manager, Delphi Advanced Powertrain, reported that Brake Specific Fuel Consumption for the 1.8L Earlier post , earlier post.). Earlier post.) DOE UFEV program targets.

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Delphi advancing Gasoline Direct-Injection Compression-Ignition engine concept; new two-stage supercharger/turbocharger boost system

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GDCI Engine and 2.4L GDi baseline engine. At SAE World Congress next week in Detroit, Delphi Automotive will present two technical papers describing its ongoing progress with the Gasoline Direct-Injection Compression-Ignition (GDCI) engine concept. GDCI combines aspects of diesel and spark-ignited engine technology.

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ORNL team finds catalytic EGR reforming can decrease fuel consumption 8% in gasoline engine

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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used on-board catalytic fuel reforming to increase the brake efficiency of a multicylinder, stoichiometric spark-ignited (SI) engine by increasing EGR dilution tolerance. The first category is where fuel is reformed in one or more cylinders in an engine using noncatalytic processes.

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Nissan reveals Frontier Diesel Runner with 2.8L Cummins turbo diesel; leveraging ATLAS engine program

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Based on a Frontier Desert Runner 4x2 model, was created to gauge the market reaction to a Nissan mid-size pickup with a diesel engine and plot a potential future direction for the Frontier. The baseline engine for the work was a Euro IV-compliant inline 4-cylinder 2.8L to provide a 5.0-liter Earlier post.). to provide a 5.0-liter

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Cummins ETHOS 2.8L optimized E-85 engine demonstrates 50-80% reduction in CO2 emissions in medium-duty truck

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Cummins has developed an E-85-specific engine and powertrain that reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 80% compared with a baseline gasoline-powered medium-duty truck. is designed specifically to use E-85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline). The ETHOS 2.8L demo truck. Click to enlarge. The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L Earlier post.)

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Ricardo Study Suggests E15 Poses Minimal Risk to MY 1994-2000 Vehicles

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A study by Ricardo for the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) concludes that the adoption of E15 as the blend limit for standard US pump grades of gasoline rather than the current E10 should not adversely affect vehicles manufactured between 1994 and 2000 in terms of their performance and durability based on normal specifications and usage profile.

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