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Volkswagen to Invest $11 Billion in Electric Car Battery Factory

Courtney Lepping — Tue, 31 May 2016 18:38:07 +0000

Volkswagen wishes to make an electric car comeback by investing $11 billion in a battery factory. After suffering through the backlash of consumers who discovered the company’s diesel emissions scandal, Volkswagen plans to produce 1 million electric and plug-in hybrid cars per year by 2025. In the past Volkswagen relied on turbodiesel engines. Now, Volkswagen […]

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HCCI Engine: No-Spark Gasoline Engine as Efficient as Diesel

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:43:59 +0000

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.

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Revetec Controlled Combustion Engine: 50% less fuel, 100% power

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:49:27 +0000

A better combustion engine is the one recently patented by Revetec, a small company from Australia. Their engine has been tested by independent parties. It has the same power as an ordinary engine, but it consumes half the fuel and it weights 50% less. It's also smaller than the average car engine.

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Engineair's Ultra-Efficient Compressed Air Motor

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:34:45 +0000

Elegant minimalist design eliminates most of the working parts traditionally associated with internal combustion engine; offers nearly 100% energy efficiency for a variety of transport and stationary applications. by Mary-Sue Haliburton Pure Energy Systems News Copyright © 2006 Imagine a vehicle with nothing under the hood (or bonnet), no gearbox, no transmission, no carburetor or […]

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Ballard's Vision Of a Hydrogen Hybrid Car

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:27:51 +0000

This is the Ballard vision of a hydrogen-electric car. I also think this would be the most efficient method of combining the silence and effectiveness of electricity with the power of an internal combustion engine ran on hydrogen.

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