Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2013

The new MY2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van for the US now features a 2.1L, 4-cylinder diesel with a t-speed automatic transmission as standard. The familiar V6 diesel is available as an option. liter four-cylinder diesel engine produces 161 hp (120 kW) and 265 lb-ft (359 N·m) of torque at 1,400-2,400 rpm. Click to enlarge.

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2014 Diesel Standards Exhaust 306

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.” Extreme compression ratio rather than downsizing. Although downsizing—i.e.,

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Mazda Engine Gasoline Diesel 322

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

Projects to be funded include: Ultra Lightweight Gas Turbine Range Extender for Electric Vehicles. The aim of this project is to develop an ultra-lightweight, gas turbine powered, electric vehicle range extender that will enable vehicle weight savings of 100 kg or more and a modest reduction in CO 2 emissions on the UNECE101 drive cycle.

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Carbon Li-ion Downsizing Gas 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2010

Hyundai staged the global debut of its i-flow diesel hybrid concept car at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Hyundai’s first diesel-electric hybrid powertrain uses the new U2 1.7-liter Hyundai’s first diesel-electric hybrid powertrain uses the new U2 1.7-liter The new, downsized 1.0-liter The i-flow concept. Click to enlarge.

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Hyundai Diesel Concept Hybrid 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

liter V8 biturbo engine is in parts relatively twice as efficient as many mid-segment or compact-class diesel engines, according to AMG. The wet start-up clutch replaces a conventional torque converter, and helps to save fuel. Taking into account the enormous performance and torque figures, the new AMG 5.5

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Downsizing Standards Fuel Mercedes 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2010

Using a 2007 base vehicle, the committee estimated the potential fuel savings and costs to consumers of available technology combinations for three types of engines over that timeframe: spark-ignition gasoline, compression-ignition (CI) diesel, and hybrid. The practicality of full-performance battery electric vehicles (i.e.,

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Purchase Lithium Ion Fuel Available 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

The entire engine range (115 to 220 PS) meets the Euro-6 standard. The two gasoline (TSI) and three diesel (TDI) engines are four-cylinder, 16-valve engines feature turbocharging and direct fuel injection. All diesel engines are fitted with an SCR catalytic converter. SCR catalytic converter. The model range.

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Standards Fuel MPG Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Renault held a “2010 Environment Workshop” last week to showcase its progress across its range of vehicles’ full lifecycle through the Renault eco² program. dCi (type K9K) diesel is the brand’s best-selling engine with almost 900,000 units manufactured in 2009, in Valladolid (Spain) and Bursa (Turkey). Select Engines. New-generation 1.5

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Environment Engine 2010 Parts 230

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The upside of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines is widely seen as being improved fuel economy coupled with an increase in specific power (especially with turbocharging), enabling significant downsizing. They then converted the four BC emission rate scenarios into CO 2 -equivalent emissions using GWP data for a 20-year time horizon.

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Climate Engine Carbon Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

GM’s electrified vehicles today include the extended-range electric Chevrolet Volt, Spark EV and Buick LaCrosse, Regal, Chevrolet Malibu and Impala with eAssist. On the 40 mpg+ highway side, in addition to the Volt and Spark EV (with the Cadillac ELR coming), GM also currently has the Sonic and the Cruze Eco and Cruze Diesel.

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GM MPG Manufacturer 2017 275

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

Based on test work already carried out, Ricardo estimates that a fuel economy improvement of up to 30% is possible with no loss of power or performance, using a downsized EBDI engine in place of currently available gasoline powertrain technology. liter turbo diesel V-8 in the other. liter EBDI engine—resulting in up to a 16.8%

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Engine Fuel Economy Energy Gasoline 218

EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with two electric motors, providing about 100km of EV range as well as the ability to travel further on petrol. Expect Kia to go big with broad model range that incorporates four-cylinder diesel alternatives as well as a high-performance Ranger Raptor fighter.

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F-150 Hummer Australia Silverado 98

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Audi will initially offer the A1 with four engines; the two TFSI gasoline engines and the two TDI diesels cover a power range from 63 kW (86 hp) to 90 kW (122 hp). This downsizing concept coupled with energy recuperation and stop-start technologies from the Audi modular efficiency platform give them fuel consumption ranging from 3.8

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Audi Standards Engine Energy 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2013

With that as a premise, they go on to show that the efficiency of existing vehicles can be both positively and negatively affected by ethanol content, ranging from ?15% converted all vehicle efficiency measurements into vehicle energy efficiency (VEE, km/MJ) based on fuel energy densities reported in each study. ESR can range from ?1.42

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Fuel Energy Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Replacing spark-ignition engines with diesel engines and components would yield fuel savings of about 37% at an added cost of approximately $5,900 per vehicle, and replacing spark-ignition engines with hybrid engines and components would reduce fuel consumption by 43% at an increase of $6,000 per vehicle.

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Fuel Downsizing Fuel Economy Diesel 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

In addition to a range of visual upgrades, the new cee’d GT Line features the debut of Kia’s all-new downsized 1.0-liter liter T-GDi is a downsized, three-cylinder power unit engineered to improve fuel consumption and emissions while offering strong performance and immediate response. liter GDi engine. Like the new 1.0-liter

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Kia Downsizing Fuel Economy Cleaner Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Among Getrag’s introductions at the Frankfurt Motor Show were a new dual clutch electric drive unit; a further development of its Boosted Range Extender; and a variant of the PowerShift transmission with an integrated electric motor for mild hybrid applications. This architecture extends the range by up to 10% in electric mode.

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Hybrid Range DC Downsizing 220

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The intent of this subtopic is to pursue the development of technologies that can improve the fuel economy of vehicles with modern Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) engine powertrains while meeting regulated exhaust emissions requirements with modern 3-way catalytic converters under stoichiometric conditions.

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Engine Fuel Hydrogen Batteries 253

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2012

The HVT combines the advantages of the mechanical travel drive with torque converter—high efficiency at high speeds, maximum torque at standstill—with those of the hydrostatic travel drive: wearless reversing, high tractive force at low engine speed, good response, and a high degree of freedom regarding power management.

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Fuel Downsizing Convert Italy 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

The new M-Class lineup offers a range of advanced engines (BlueTEC diesel units and the new generation of BlueDIRECT gasoline engines), a class-leading Cd figure (drag coefficient) of 0.32 BlueTEC diesel units. With AdBlue emission control technology, both diesel models meet the EU6 standard slated for introduction in 2014.

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Mercedes SUV Fuel Energy 220

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

This range includes the first four-cylinder engine with cylinder deactivation (ACT)—and the modular diesel engine system (MDB) with the also new EA288 engine series (66 kW / 89 hp to 140 kW / 188 hp). The advantage is significantly accelerated pressure build-up, which leads to very responsive downsized engines.

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Engine Exhaust Diesel Gasoline-Electric 294

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

liter gasoline and diesel engines, together with next generation five- and six-speed gearboxes. Focused on meeting a growing customer demand for ‘downsized’ engines offering strong power with reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, the new gasoline and diesel powertrains are being progressively introduced across the Opel product range.

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Engine 2016 Fuel Economy Fuel 287

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

However they also retain the ability to travel long distances when utilizing the existing gas or diesel refueling infrastructure. Diesel vs. hybrid vs. plug-in hybrid vehicles, followed by the (positive) social implications of PHEVs and especially flex-fuel PHEVs. A PHEV-20, for example, has a 20-mile electric-only range.

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PHEV Prius Gasoline-Electric Plug-in 49

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

(In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) The PHEV does not require the heavy, costly batteries required by other electric cars, nor does it suffer from a limited range or poor freeway performance. It offers a range of elegant solutions to a number of problems.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

liter turbo gasoline engine with the torque and efficiency of an advanced diesel powertrain without the equivalent emissions. The compact size and neater packaging of the cylinder head enables engineers to position the catalytic converter next to the turbo. Earlier post.) VC-Turbo technology combines the power of a high-performance 2.0-liter

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Infinity Engine Fuel Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

Methods of converting new types of biofuels in the TMFB Cluster of Excellence. The fuels covered a wide range of different fuel properties: Cetane number from 30 to 70. The single-cylinder engine used for the diesel engine tests had a swept volume of 0.39L. Click to enlarge. it can be produced from biomass.). Janssen et al.

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Pollution Emissions Fuel Diesel 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Discrete variable valve lift: increases efficiency by optimizing air flow over a broader range of engine operation which reduces pumping losses. This yields a wide range of performance optimization and volumetric efficiency, including enabling the engine to be valve throttled. Turbocharging and downsizing: 26% for cars, 15% for trucks.

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2016 MPG Fuel Economy EPA 210

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Establishing dealer network. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10.

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