2014 Green Car Technology Award Nominee – Audi 3.0L TDI Diesel Engine
In just about a month, Green Car Journal, at the 2014 Washington Auto Show, will present the winner of the 2014 Green Car Technology...
BMW Offers a Three-Cylinder in its Latest Hybrid Active Tourer Concept
The BMW Active Tourer Concept vehicle is a hybrid vehicle, with a twist. Instead of the hybrid drive-train being mated with an inline four-cylinder...
Fuel Vapors System Runs Car in Charlotte County
Have your every drove your car on "fumes"? They're gas vapors that form when it evaporates. One man, John Weston, from Charlottle County, FL, has found these fumes useful and made a fueling system out of them so his car gets an incredible mileage: 463 miles per gallon! In European measurements (if I'm correct) this is 0.8L/100km!!! Wow! Not even VW's latest gadget car can't get this mileage!
Austrian Hypermiler Does Amazing 1242 Miles and 127.9 MPG In a Classic Diesel, Around...
It's not the Prius, it's not the Volt, it's not any hybrid car, but a turbocharged diesel one: a 1.2-liter Skoda Fabia. Austrian hypermiler Gerhard Plattner has just proved that an ordinary diesel car can go 2,000 kilometers (1,242.7 miles) with just one 45-liter fuel tank, reaching an astonishing 127.9 miles per gallon.
Free Piston Engine: Worth Investing In It to Power Future Electric Cars?
Since the idea of economy started in humanity's mind, everybody wants to reduce the expenses, mostly on energy dependence. Nowadays, when hybrid cars and, generally, electric vehicles are starting to play a huge role in car industry, and electric technology is starting to get cheaper yearly, there still are scientists that get inspired by the old explosion engine principles, albeit they are being used for more than a hundred years and their power source is mainly based on fossil fuel.
30 MPG 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Has Some Calling “Bulls**t”
I've been reading up on the news, a little, and it seems odd that while some makers garner rave reviews when they release a...
Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Yields Super Fuel Efficient [3,587mpg] Reliant Robin
When we think fuel efficient, we might think hybrid or electric and this maxes out our brains at a little over 100mpge, so how...
HCCI Engine: No-Spark Gasoline Engine as Efficient as Diesel
If you ever had a diesel car, you know that it's more fuel efficient than the gasoline counterpart. That's because diesel engines use compression to ignite the fuel, and gasoline engines use a spark to do that. Practically, diesel engines could work without any electricity - at all.
New Catalytic Converter Increases Fuel Efficiency and Drops Tailpipe Pollution
One of the most important components in a vehicle for controlling exhaust emission is the catalytic converter. Even though this is common knowledge, there...
2014 Green Car Technology of the Year Award – The Green Optimistic Picks
January 22, on the second Policy Day at the 2014 Washington Auto Show, Green Car Journal will announce the winner of the 2014 Green...