Cars Downsizing Fuel Economy Re-Charge 
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Rolf Bulander, chairman of the Bosch Mobility Solutions business sector and member of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH, explained that the improvement in fuel consumption results from cooling the charge to minimize/avoid fuel enrichment; mitigating knocking (premature denotation); and enabling an increased compression ratio.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
The higher-voltage variant will support moves by European vehicle manufacturers announced earlier this year to introduce 48 volt passenger vehicle power networks to help meet the requirement for lower fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. —Guy Morris, CPT’s engineering director and chief technical officer. —Guy Morris.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 4, 2010
Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles over the next 15 years without compromising vehicle performance or safety, according to a new report by the National Research Council.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 4, 2011
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.,
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
The all-new electronic limited slip differential, Ultra Posi is designed for front and rear-wheel drive vehicles, performs comparably to four-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive systems and provides up to a 10% savings in fuel economy, Eaton says. We’re focused on the customers’ most critical issue—smaller packaging.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 11, 2009
CPT says that the RegEnBoost system enables a typical family-sized car to achieve less than 100 g/km CO 2 with a 1-liter gasoline engine, but when required can offer the same lively performance and in-gear acceleration of a 2-liter naturally aspirated powertrain. Hence the industry trend to dual-charging systems, CPT notes.
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Its dive into the financial doldrums was short-lived however, and on July 10, 2009, the company bounced back with the formation of a new, downsized GM (see article ). Ecotec VVT I-4 will include E85 engines and the number of flex fuel models will increase from 17 in 2010 to 28 in 2012. How GM hopes to recover. Starting from 2010 its 2.4l
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