Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 25 May 2009 20:43:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 HCCI Engine: No-Spark Gasoline Engine as Efficient as Diesel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gm-hcci-engine-20090525/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gm-hcci-engine-20090525/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 20:43:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3571 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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