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Mazdas new SKYACTIV gasoline and diesel engines are steps on the road to its Ideal Engine; focus on compression ratio

Green Car Congress

Mazda hosted Green Car Congress at a SKYACTIV Technologies media workshop this week in Vancouver, Canada, at which engineering management explained the development philosophy, approach and results for the initial set of SKYACTIV technologies. Extreme compression ratio rather than downsizing. Although downsizing—i.e.,

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Groups join forces on fuel efficient engine

Green Cars News

In April 2008, Changan displayed a prototype engine developed with Orbital at the Beijing International Motor Show. It incorporated a twin turbocharger which enabled very high levels of performance and maintained a desirable flat torque curve across a wide speed range. It is not the first time that the two companies have joined forces.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This number represents the electric propulsion range of the PHEV before it must depend upon its internal combustion engine for motive power. A PHEV-20, for example, has a 20-mile electric-only range. In short, a PHEV delivers all of the advantages of a BEV while retaining the unlimited range of traditional gasoline fueled vehicles.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08.

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