low consumption engine Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:45:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 StARS: Start-Stop Hybrid System Reducing Fuel Consumption Up to 25% https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eureka-stars-start-stop-system-20090117/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eureka-stars-start-stop-system-20090117/#respond Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:45:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1654 In the battle to have the most efficient engines, one of the biggest allies is the European Union and the laws they make to force the car companies to lower the harmful emissions. By 2012 they set a maximum of 130 g/km carbon-dioxide (CO2) emission.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eureka-stars-start-stop-system-20090117/feed/ 0 1654 Revetec Controlled Combustion Engine: 50% less fuel, 100% power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/revetec-controlled-combustion-engine-x4v2-20080701/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/revetec-controlled-combustion-engine-x4v2-20080701/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:49:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=351 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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