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Road Trip: 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium Extended Range

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Road Trip: 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium Extended Range Making the Case To Be Your Only Car Clean Fleet Report recently ventured on a 1,796-mile, four-state road trip in an all-electric 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium AWD Extended. The Mach-E has a 91 kilowatt-hour (kWh) extended range battery, and a 10.5

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GM CEO outlines highlights of fuel economy plan through MY2016: lightweighting; more efficient gasoline and clean diesel engines, electrification

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Within his talk about the need for a US energy policy at the IHS CERAWeek 2013 energy conference in Houston, GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson outlined some highlights of the company’s fuel economy plan through the 2016 model year. A good rule of thumb is that a 10% reduction in curb weight will reduce fuel consumption by about 6.5%.

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Audi banking on Gen 2 3.0L TDI diesel for US sales; calls for a “fair shot” for diesel

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Audi of America introduced four new TDI clean diesel models for the US market this year—the Audi A8, A7, A6, Q5—along with an updated Q7 TDI, all equipped with a second-generation 3.0L V6 TDI diesel engine. ” One of our primary goals and objectives is to level the playing field for clean diesel vehicles.

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NREL analysis of Proterra electric bus demo finds average fuel economy nearly 4x that of CNG baseline buses

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miles per diesel gallon equivalent (DGE). The baseline CNG buses had an average fuel economy of 4.04 These results indicated that the BEBs have an average fuel economy that is nearly 4 times higher than that of the CNG buses. kWh per mile on the service route, which equated to 17.48 miles per DGE.

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opoc engine company EcoMotors closes US $32.5M Series C

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The funding will allow EcoMotors to expand its research and development capability in support of growing its intellectual property base and moving to the next stage of opoc diesel engine development with two important customers, Navistar and Zhongding Holding Group. Braemar Managing Director William D. Braemar Managing Director William D.

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SAE REX: PHEVs and REEVs could open door for advanced combustion regime engines

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Berube went on to reference the importance of DOE’s major new Co-Optima initiative ( earlier post ), an effort to co-optimize new fuels and light-, medium- and heavy-duty engines which together could achieve very significant performance improvements. This fuel economy improvement is reduced to 3% in comparison to a modern CI (i.e.

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Navigant forecasts MHD vehicle market to nearly double by 2035 with declining share of conventional engines; gases win out over electricity

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Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) together will add up to less than 1% of the MHDVs in use in 2035, according to the Navigant forecast. While diesel will remain the primary fuel choice of MHDVs throughout the forecast period, its share will fall from more than 79% in 2014 to 76% in 2035.

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