Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2014

This year''s Detroit Auto Show is a little light on truly green car content, so most attention will instead turn to downsized engines and vehicles offering subtle improvements in fuel economy.

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Detroit Volvo Concept Downsizing 97

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

reduction in fuel consumption achieved with XL Hybrids’ aftermarket hybrid electric powertrain ( earlier post ) on a light-duty cargo van on the UDDS cycle (urban conditions). The tests were conducted on ESWA’s light-duty chassis dynamometer test cell featuring a twin-roll Clayton dynamometer. —Justin Ashton. kWh, Ashton said.

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Hybrid Fuel Lithium Ion Boston 330

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Cleeves told Green Car Congress that the smaller 110 cc engine (Pinnalce had earlier been working on a larger 250cc proof of concept) exhibits a bit more friction, with more of an impact at lighter load, due to some design choices the company made partly due to geometry issues in trying to pack the engine into the constrained scooter space.

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Engine Fuel Fuel Economy Production 262

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.,

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Mazda Engine Gasoline Diesel 322

Green Cars News

MAY 18, 2009

“The beauty of EcoBoost is that it enables us to downsize for fuel efficiency, yet boost for power. . “We do this with affordable technology that can be applied to the widest number of vehicles. EcoBoost is an important component of that goal.

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Ford Engine Fuel Economy MPG 39

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 ). diesel engine for light trucks. According to Bob Lutz, the company’s vice-chairman, the problem with diesel is the added expense of the car.

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General Motors Green Motor Motors 40

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

While the Niro Hybrid was preceded by clean mobility products such as the Optima Hybrid and Soul EV, Niro is the first Kia to make use of an all-new, dedicated eco-car platform and is an important next step on the path to nearly tripling the brand’s global green car line-up by 2020. A compact and lightweight 1.56-kWh

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Hybrid Chicago Plug-in Kia 150