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OCTOBER 1, 2015

Today, a report estimates how much the added pollution from Volkswagen's "cheater" diesels has affected air quality, another speculates on possible Toyota Mirai variants, and Mazda teases a concept car that could hint at a new range extenders for plug-in cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Today, we've got a very cool electric van, a diesel-engine maker moving into electric trucks, Mazda's rotary range-extending engine, and new and better electric motorcycles. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 29, 2015

Today, we argue that the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata is the greenest new sports car you can buy, the 2016 Chevrolet Colorado diesel pickup truck is priced ahead of its fall launch, and the Tesla Model X is seen testing in public. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Today we detail the 2016 Chevrolet Volt powertrain, look at new guidelines for EPA fuel-economy testing, and update the saga of the Mazda 6 diesel sedan. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The EPA issues new fuel-economy testing.'

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports, we''ve got photos of the new--and rather nice-looking--2014 Mazda 3 sedan, news about the future of coal for generating electricity, and a look at General Motors repeating history with its newest hybrid. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Having announced the introduction of the new SKYACTIV diesel Mazda CX-5, the Japanese carmaker has now set an ambitious target for diesel sales in its home country. According to Takashi Yamauchi, the president of Mazda, the company wants half of the domestic sales of the CX-5 to be of the diesel model.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 16, 2019

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 15, 2019. The big news this week was Tesla's unveiling of its long-awaited Model Y small, more affordable SUV. The car. Which two companies announced expanded lines of plug-in hybrids this week?

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JANUARY 15, 2014

Hopes of the SKYACTIV-D diesel engine (pictured) reaching the North American market in the near future have hit a stumbling block. Latest News Green cars Mazda'

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Green Cars News

JUNE 11, 2014

Mazda is to add a new smaller engine choice to its popular Skyactiv range to deliver new highs in efficiency and new lows in emissions. The new Skyactiv-D 1.5 will first debut on the new Mazda2, and will at first be available in Japan only. First revealed at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this [.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2012

Starting from 2013, the GRAND-AM racing season will welcome a new, fuel efficient engine – as Mazda introduces its SKYACTIV-D diesel engines to the new GX Class for advanced/clean technologies.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2013

Mazda will increase production of its fuel efficient SKYACTIV engines by 25% in response to popular demand. The four-cylinder SKYACTIV-G petrol engines and SKYACTIV-D clean diesel units, which appear in the CX-5 [below] and Mazda6, significantly improve fuel economy and CO2 emissions, compared to [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 31, 2013

Mazda’s new Skyactiv-D efficient diesel engine technologies are helping to switch motorists to cleaner diesel engines, the company claims. While diesel cars are already very popular in Europe, where more than half of all new cars sold come with an oil-burner, in Japan they represent a mere 0.4

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The upcoming Tokyo Motor Show will be the setting for Mazda to unveil its latest concept car – the Mazda Takeri midsize saloon car.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 23, 2013

As well as efficient diesel and petrol versions and a hybrid model (for Japan onl[.]. Newly unveiled and set to benefit from its maker’s fuel efficient Skyactiv technology for the first time, the third generation Mazda3 will showcase a whole range of engine types at the forthcoming Tokyo Motor Show.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 26, 2012

It will be the first Mazda vehicle to adopt SKYACTIV Technology in the powertrain, body and chassis – and now production has begun of the new Mazda CX-5. The vehicle boasts a SKYACTIV-D 2.2litre diesel engine and is scheduled to go on sale in Japan and Europe this spring, before being introduced in other markets [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

Another day passes and more news reaches us here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk This time it is the turn of the Mazda Motor Corporation, which will exhibit freshened versions of the CX-7 at the event including a version powered by the company’s MZR-CD 2.2 litre diesel engine mated to a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

At the event, Mazda, which has just announced that it has achieved its best ever sales month in the UK in September, will showcase the world premier of its next generation engine line-up and automatic transmissions. It will also take the opportunity to give a debut to the Kiyora concept car.

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2013

Mazda is to step up production of its Skyactiv transmissions in response to rising demand for its new, efficient range of petrol and diesel cars. The Japanese firm, which developed its Skyactiv technologies in the belief that their is more efficiency to be eeked out of the old combustion engine,[.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 18, 2012

That’s because Mazda has decided to sell racing versions of its SKYACTIV-D diesel engines (pictured) to teams that will compete in the LMP2 class of the event: with the technology to [.]. This year’s Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race may barely be in the record books, but attention has already turned to the 2013 event.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 20, 2009

Times change fairly quickly in the automotive industry - it wasn’t too long ago that Mazda announced that it had no interest in hybrid cars. However, that all changed when the manufacturer first announced it would make diesel options and then followed that with a focus on more efficient, direct injection technology.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 6, 2011

The SKYACTIV fuel saving technologies from Mazda will soon be appearing in the US as they debut at the upcoming New York International Auto Show. SKYACTIV is a suite of technologies that includes efficient internal combustion petrol and diesel engines; as well as manual and automatic transmissions; and an advanced body and chassis.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2012

It will include both the SKYACTIV-D diesel engines and the SKYACTIV-G petrol [.]. From October this year, the number of engines produced at the plant will leap from 400,000 units to 800,000 thanks to increasing demand.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

However, the Mazda is curiously devoid of interest, even though this –stop model now comes with a six-speed manual where previously this engine has only been available with an automatic gearbox. Mazda says its system allows the engine to restart in half the time of any competitor stop-start system and it certainly works quickly.

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Green Cars News

MAY 12, 2009

Mazda took another step forward towards establishing a hydrogen economy in Norway today as it delivered the first of its Norwegian-specification RX-8 Hydrogen RE model. Liv Signe Navarsete, who drove the Mazda rotary-engine sports coupe from Oslo to the Drammen station on zero-emission hydrogen.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Mazda has lowered the emissions of its popular executive saloon and Tourer Mazda6 models to make them more fuel and tax efficient, something that’s bound to give them extra appeal with businesses. litre Skyactiv diesel saloon engine, drops CO2 emission by fou[.]. The Mazda6 saloon, fitted with the 2.2

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 8, 2011

will be familiar with the new petrol and diesel engines being introduced as part of Mazda’s SKYACTIV technology portfolio. Regular readers of TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk However, as part of a media workshop the Japanese manufacturer has now offered more insight into the rest of its SKYACTIV technologies.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The new Mazda2 supermini is on its way to the European market, with details now revealed on the new car’s drivetrains and equipment. A choice of four engines will be offered including the new 77kW/105ps Skyactiv-D 1.5 litre diesel with headline low emission figure of 89g/km CO2 and fuel economy of[.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 2, 2011

The North American market will soon be blessed by a new version of the Mazda3 – which will boast SKYACTIV technology. SKYACTIV is the term for Mazda’s range of next generation technologies which includes petrol and diesel engines, transmissions and a new body and chassis that improve driving dynamics as well as both safety and [.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Diesel or petrol? Why, diesel, of course. All you need to do is select the lowest CO2 car you can and you’re fine, right? It is greener; it has lower CO2 and, as we’re both told and financially incentivised, less CO2 is better for the environment. If only it were that simple. Let’s not get [.].

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Green Cars News

MARCH 1, 2013

Mazda’s unique Skyactiv technologies have become one of the most talked about new eco-technologies of recent years, despite competition from bigger companies such as BMW with its EfficientDynamics technology and Volkswagen and its BlueMotion tech.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Honda’s new Civic Tourer arrives in the UK from early next year, with emissions as low as 99g/km CO2, thanks to the inclusion of the Earth Dreams 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engine. Expected to account for around a quarter of all Civic sales in the UK, order books for the new model open next month, with pri[.]. Honda Mazda'

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Mazda’s all-new CX-5 model will be the first car in the UK to use the car maker’s new fuel efficiency Skyactiv technology. The ground-breaking technology will make its debut in the new compact SUV when UK sales begin in 2012.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 25, 2009

Indeed this year there will be plenty of exciting performance and luxury cars making their debut including the Bugatti Bordeaux, the Rolls-Royce Ghost and the Bentley Mulsanne. However, the event will also have a distinctly green theme. Mazda CX-7 – The new-look Mazda CX-7 includes a new 2.2

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Green Cars News

JUNE 8, 2011

While other manufacturers look to hybrid and electric powertrains, Mazda is doing things differently. The Japanese manufacturer is proving that there’s plenty of life left in the development of the 150 year-old internal combustion engine as the shroud is lifted from its new SKYACTIV technologies work.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Second place went to two-times previous winners James Sutherland and Richard Hill in the Toyota Yaris TR Diesel, which achieved 86.18 In this category, the Mazda 3 2.3 mpg, an impressive 25.09 percent improvement on the manufacturer’s combined figure. MPS with a manufacturer’s combined mpg of 29.1, managed to achieve 41.75

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APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. No announced plans.

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