Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 29, 2025

Toyotas hybrid system automatically switches between the electric drive mode, combined electric motor and gasoline engine, and gasoline-only engine power. The hybrid engine shines whether it is highway cruising or in-town driving, but there was noticeable noise under stress such as when climbing a hill.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 14, 2025

Gasoline-only variants have been eliminated to make room for more hybrids, which Toyota believes will help it adhere to increasingly strict emissions regulations. liter as the base engine with the hybridized version being optional until Toyota says otherwise. Meanwhile, North America will presumably stick with the non-hybrid 2.0-liter

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2025

It was a gasoline-powered subcompact crossover, sold in the U.S. The track-ready consumer model coming to America next year shares the basic specifications a 3-cylinder turbocharged engine, automatic or manual transmission and all-wheel drive. The 2026 BZ will be at Toyota dealers in fall 2025. In one word: plenty.

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Lexus Toyota Plug-in All-Electric 71

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 23, 2025

Initially available with only a gasoline engine, we drove the most fuel-efficient Tucson, a plug-in hybrid. Hyundai began offering gasoline-electric hybrid models and plug-in hybrids in 2024. liter 4-cylinder engine, producing 178 horsepower and 195 pound-feet of torque.

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Tucson PHEV Hyundai Plug-in 48

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2025

These vehicles get N exclusive badging, modified engines, custom gearboxes, aerodynamic upgrades and variable suspension systems. Ready to stop as well as go Hyundai engineers had some fun creating software that simulates gear shifts and throttle sounds. They make the IONIQ 5 N sound and feel oh-so like a gasoline-powered car.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 18, 2025

It also sported a more curved fender with a character line not present on the other two cars. Though it was a nod to modernity, fully independent suspension was also a way for engineers to create more interior room in a car with much smaller exterior dimensions. The engine was also smaller, as the big block era faded from view.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2025

Like the Revero, the Amaris will use a gasoline engine as a generator. Karma Automotive on Thursday unveiled the Amaris, a plug-in hybrid coupe the company says is due to start production in the fourth quarter of next year, and confirmed that it’s moving closer to a replacement for the Revero sedan.

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Karma Plug-in Plug Hybrid 52

Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

If you miss the sounds of a gasoline engine, simulated engine sounds can be set in the infotainment screen. Through the Iconic Sounds option, engine sounds can be changed for the drive modes; Comfort for a soothing hum, Sport provides an aural sense of power or Eco Pro, where there are no sounds at all.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 12, 2025

MPGe is a measurement of how efficient a car powered by electricity is using the same amount of energy as is contained in one gallon of gasoline. Good-looking–and working Just like with a gasoline-powered truck, the Rivian will eat-up electricity faster if it is driven aggressively. Beginning with the 4.5

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

To reconcile all this, its prepared by committing to a new template for making both EVs and gasoline models, all on the same production line. assembly plant, its Marysville, Ohio, facility that opened in 1982, humming at capacity, no matter what the market presents. This sea change in how it makes vehicles could keep its oldest U.S.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 22, 2025

Polestar’s First Dedicated EV Platform Delivers Polestar has released three models in America, with variants, beginning with the company’s last gasoline engine propelled car, the limited production sublime 2021 Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid. Without an engine up front there is a 1.1

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Motor Motors Motoring SUV 45

The Truth About Cars

JULY 21, 2025

If a person has spent most of their life driving a combustion engine car, their brain anticipates acceleration after the rev of the engine, a warning that they are about to experience a change in speed. Other studies claimed it was engine noise that was the determining factor.

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Environment Gasoline-Electric All-Electric Engine 74

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 10, 2025

EV Purpose-Designed Exterior Hyundai says the Konas EV-centric exterior design strategy is opposite of what many car companies have done, which is design first for a gasoline engine and then adapt it to an electric power plant. We do our best to present our unvarnished evaluations of vehicles and news irrespective of these inducements.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

Just a few months into a joint innovation project ( earlier post ), engineers from Bosch Engineering and Ligier Automotive have built a high-performance vehicle with a hydrogen engine. The Ligier JS2 RH2 was officially presented to the public for the first time as part of the 100 th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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Engine Hydrogen Concept Carbon 459

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

The European Association for Emissions Control by Catalyst (AECC) presented its zero-impact emissions demonstrator car at the Vienna Motor Symposium, 27-29 April. liter gasoline engine with direct injection and a peak power of 110 kW, equipped with variable valve timing and cylinder deactivation. Resources.

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Emissions Motor Motoring Motors 435

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

Following on the introduction of R33 Blue Diesel ( earlier post ), Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now developed a low-carbon gasoline. The new fuel, called Blue Gasoline, similarly contains up to 33% renewables, ensuring a well-to-wheel reduction in carbon emissions of at least 20% per kilometer driven. Every bit of CO?

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Gasoline Renewable CO2 Gasoline-Electric 393

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A team at Sandia National Laboratories has designed a five-component gasoline-like blend containing 40% vol of a mixture of 2-methyl furan and 2,5-dimethyl furan (representative of products of a viable pathway to make furans from bio-feedstock). Simulations show promising results when the resulting fuel is compared to regular E10 gasoline.

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Gasoline Renewable Fuel 2019 416

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2021

Kia has presented the fifth-generation Kia Sportage SUV. Developed on a new architecture, the all-new Sportage will offer gasoline and diesel powertrains at market launch later this year, followed by hybrid-electric (HEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) models. From launch, a 1.6-liter 265 N·m) torque. 417 N·m) torque.

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PHEV Gasoline Kia Diesel 435

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2014

ExxonMobil, Corning and Toyota have collaborated to develop an Onboard Separation System (OBS) to optimize gasoline engine efficiency and performance. In a paper on the OBS presented at the SAE 2014 World Congress, the researchers suggested that potential applications include downsizing to increase fuel economy by ?10%

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Gasoline Engine Toyota Fuel Economy 316

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2014

In a presentation at the SAE 2014 High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium and then in a paper given at SAE 2014 World Congress, Mark Sellnau, Engineering Manager, Delphi Advanced Powertrain, reported that Brake Specific Fuel Consumption for the 1.8L Earlier post , earlier post.). Earlier post.) DOE UFEV program targets.

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Gasoline Engine Fuel Wisconsin 304

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks. Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance. —Daniel Cohn.

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MIT Gasoline Engine Fuel 247

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

LiquidPiston announced a $9-million award from the US Army to design, build and demonstrate an advanced, heavy-fueled combustion engine that uses up to 30% less fuel than comparable gasoline-powered engines in the same power class and reduces size and weight by up to 10x over diesel engines with comparable power output.

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Engine Fuel Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 396

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2014

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ (FCA) Chrysler Brand will launch two plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) over the next several years, said Al Gardner, President and CEO of the Chrysler Brand, during the FCA Investor Day presentations at Auburn Hills, Mi. FCA is working on consolidating and improving its large and specialty engines lineup.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Cost of the new engine relative to gasoline baseline. The technical focus over the last year has been on new engine installation and performance assessments. In 2013, the Cummins-led team demonstrated a Tier 2 Bin 5 version of the engine on the dyno, and then on a vehicle, while development of the Tier 2 Bin 2 engine started.

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Fuel Economy Economy Gasoline Downsizing 357

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Peugeot is introducing gasoline plug-in hybrid systems for the Peugeot 3008 and 508 and 508 SW engines. The HYBRID engine and the HYBRID4 (four-wheel-drive) engine will be available for the second quarter of 2019. The electric drive can reach 135km/h (84 mph) before the combustion engine takes over.

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Plug-in Gasoline Hybrid Plug 249

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2019

Continental has been developing cost-effective 48-volt electrification, which can be used with both gasoline and diesel engines for number of years. In the run-up to IAA 2019, Continental Powertrain is now presenting a 48-volt high-power drive system with 30 kW, enabling a full-hybrid vehicle.

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Hybrid Motor Motors Motoring 360

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2018

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used on-board catalytic fuel reforming to increase the brake efficiency of a multicylinder, stoichiometric spark-ignited (SI) engine by increasing EGR dilution tolerance. The first category is where fuel is reformed in one or more cylinders in an engine using noncatalytic processes.

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Engine Gasoline Fuel Exhaust 274

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2014

Audi is presenting an Audi TT offroad concept at the Beijing International Automobile Exhibition. We chose to present the Audi TT offroad concept in China, our second domestic market, because it represents the urban mobility of tomorrow: It is sustainable, dynamic, intelligent and connected. The combustion engine is a turbocharged 2.0

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2019

At the Aachen Colloquium next week, Ricardo and Geely will present research work into the application of the Ricardo Magma xEV gasoline engine concept into a commercial vehicle series hybrid powertrain, delivering 45% brake thermal efficiency. The Magma concept architecture closes the inlet valve early to reduce pumping losses.

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Engine Hybrid Gasoline-Electric Concept 207

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

At the upcoming 2020 Geneva International Motor Show, BMW will present three new plug-in hybrid models for the premium mid-range—all in the 3 Series. liter in-line 6-cylinder diesel engine and mild hybrid technology with a 48-volt starter-generator. The debuts include the new BMW 330e Touring (combined fuel consumption: from 1.7

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2019

The Government of Sweden has launched a study to offer proposals on how to implement a ban on sales of new gasoline and diesel cars, and the timeline for the phase-out of fossil fuels. The final report is to be presented by 1 February 2021. Hunhammar holds a Master’s degree in engineering and a doctorate in natural resource management.

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Sweden Gasoline Diesel Fuel 300

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Renault is presenting the new turbocharged gasoline 1.3 TCe engine, co-developed by the Alliance and Daimler, at the Geneva Motor Show. liter powerplant combines greater driving enjoyment with higher torque at low engine speeds, plus higher, more consistent torque at higher revs and lower fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions.

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Engine Petrol Exhaust Gasoline-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers from Tampere University and the University of Eastern Finland have found that the particulate emissions of auxiliary heaters can be up to a thousand times higher than the particulate emissions of idling gasoline vehicles. Their open-access study is published in the journal Atmosphere.

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Gasoline Engine Finland Exhaust 221

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2017

Based on a three-year study of toxic and environmentally relevant pollutants from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, Swiss researchers have concluded that some GDI engines emit just as many soot particles as unfiltered diesel cars did in the past. Further, the GDI particles carry numerous carcinogenic substances.

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Engine Exhaust Gasoline Diesel 271

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

Graphic from GM, Edwards AMR 2014 presentation. The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. Simulation of injector.

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Engine GM Ford 2014 335

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A team at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has developed a data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) framework to design liquid fuels exhibiting tailor-made properties for combustion engine applications to improve efficiency and lower carbon emissions. —Kuzhagaliyeva et al. Kuzhagaliyeva, N., Horváth, S.,

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Design Emissions Fuel Engine 305

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Renault has presented EOLAB, a new prototype which explores ways to deliver ultra-low fuel consumption. The Renault gasoline-electric plug-in hybrid system supports 60 km of electric range plus extended range due to the gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge. Hybrid system.

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Plug-in MPG Hybrid Plug 370