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Mazda announces SKYACTIV-X: gasoline Spark Controlled Compression Ignition

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Mazda Motor Corporation announced “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030,” a new long-term vision for technology development that looks ahead to the year 2030. Under the original “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom” vision announced in 2007, Mazda has endeavored to offer both driving pleasure and environmental and safety performance. Earlier post.).

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Petrobras joins Model Fuels Consortium II

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Fuel producers must consider a widening product range, from cleaner, high-performance petroleum blends to alternative fuels that vary in quality. MFC II builds on the work of the original Consortium and continues the innovative design work targeting cleaner burning, more efficient transportation engines, power turbines and fuels.

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Toyota a winner as CO2 reduction plan introduced to parliament with less pressure on SUVs and utes

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But Mazda, currently the number two seller in Australia, and one of the most vocal critics of Option B and the NVES, can gain little solace because its vehicles sit in the passenger vehicle segment and its pipeline of low and zero emissions vehicles is limited.

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

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Fuel properties affect a number of combustion and engine properties, including ignition delay; knocking tendency; flame speeds; pollutant emissions; sooting tendency and particle size distributions; and density, viscosity and heating value. The components can be combined to model a large variety of new or existing fuel blends.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes, which vary wildly from country to country across Europe, have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen.&#. Mazda / 13 / 158. Renault / 3 / 143.

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