Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Some parts, including the exhaust manifolds, will completely disappear by virtue of being cast directly into the cylinder head. Today, the engine line-up features 32 different left and right exhaust manifolds. On Challenger, for example, this allowed engineers to improve both the intake flow and exhaust flow resulting in more power.

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Chrysler Engine Exhaust Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2013

The study includes various sizes of sedans, wagons, and SUVs, as well as pickup trucks, minivans and a few “muscle” and sports cars. Analysis has focused on speeds of 50, 60, 70 and 80 mph. [ 1 ] The data resulting from these tests simulates steady highway cruising on flat roads at moderate temperatures (SAE J2263, J2264).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Develop a flexible combustion system for their minivan platform based on a downsized, turbocharged engine that uses direct gasoline injection, recirculation of exhaust gases, and flexible intake air control to reduce emissions. Advanced Technology Powertrains for Light-Duty Vehicles (ATP-LD). Grantee Project Award. Chrysler Group LLC.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2016

The gasoline-powered version of the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivan has earned a highway-cycle fuel-economy rating of 28 mpg US (8.4 l/100km) from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—a benchmark unsurpassed by any minivan on the US market and 12% better than the vehicle Pacifica replaces. liter Pentastar V-6 engine.

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Minivan Chrysler MPG 2017 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2010

Volkswagen will introduce its new third-generation Sharan MPV (minivan) this summer. Both TDIs are fitted with an SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) exhaust aftertreatment system. This substance is continuously sprayed into the exhaust gases upstream of the SCR catalytic converter. Click to enlarge. SCR catalytic converter.

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MPG Fuel Batteries Battery 210

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Homeowners can illuminate the eaves with iridescent icicles, shroud their shrubs with twinkling mesh nets, or mount massive menorahs on their minivans. The earliest Christmas lights used miniature versions of Edison's pear-shaped carbon-filament bulbs, which had fragile exhaust tips that were prone to breaking.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 26, 2023

There were simply fewer coupe buyers as Americans ran to minivans and the earliest family-friendly SUVs. Said relocation required a revision to the exhaust routing. Only trim remained to tell them apart. Ford was well aware in the Eighties how the two-door market (especially at the luxury end) was in flux. And that was all.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 20, 2024

The negative was the exhaust note (when in hybrid mode), which was too loud and quickly became tiresome. Even though they are both owned by Stellantis, the Chrysler Pacifica PHEV has badging on the rear lift gate identifying it as the only plug-in hybrid minivan on the market, as does the Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid.

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Dodge Plug-in Plug Hybrid 67

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

The back-end has horizontal LED taillights and round, chrome-tipped twin exhaust ends that are integrated into a wind-channeling lower fascia. If you are ready to scrap the minivan and SUV, get down to your local Subaru dealer and tell the sales representative you need to take a long, winding test drive. A Driver’s Interior.

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MPG Clean Cleaning Miles 85

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Without being exhaustive, let’s take a look at some examples. Next up will be the ID.Buzz electric minivan. Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade. I’m looking primarily at the U.S. America doesn’t get the ID.3,

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Market Motorcycles Saturn Prius 70

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

liter opposed-piston, gasoline compression ignition engine applicable to large passenger vehicles, pick-up trucks, SUVs and minivans. At idle and low loads, rebreathing of hot exhaust gases provided stable compression ignition with very low engine-out NO x and PM emissions. displacements, said Redon. Earlier post.). and Headley, J.,

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Downsizing Engine Fuel Gasoline 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

Achates has demonstrated the ability to achieve exceptionally high exhaust gas temperatures at idle—much beyond what can be done with equivalent 4-stroke engines. The intake ports at one end of the cylinder and exhaust ports at the other are opened by the piston motion and enable efficient uniflow air scavenging. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 1, 2013

At exactly at 11:15 on the nose, a Honda Odyssey minivan pulled to a stop in front of me – the side door opened and a young voice belonging to someone inside said “Put this on, and get inside.” It was 2:50 AM and suddenly I was exhausted. I made it back home, calmed a worried wife, and collapsed into bed.

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Chevron Re-Charge Climate Change Climate 342

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

An important attribute of improvements in SI engine technologies is that they offer a means of reducing fuel consumption in relatively small, incremental steps.

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Fuel Downsizing Fuel Economy Diesel 210

Plug Me In

APRIL 9, 2024

Up to halfway through Morocco, I could travel by train, then mainly buses and minivans. My first stop was Terjit, and I took another minivan. ’ Exhausted? This is really short considering I had been traveling for more than three years to Australia. But I wanted to discover Morocco, so I took about 10 days for the trip.

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