opposed-cylinder engine Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:00:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Hybrid Vehicle Fuel Economy without Electrification? – Namikoshi Electronics https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hybrid-vehicle-fuel-economy-without-electrification-namikoshi-electronics-20141027/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hybrid-vehicle-fuel-economy-without-electrification-namikoshi-electronics-20141027/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:00:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49897 Improving fuel economy can be done in a number of ways, not all of which require electrification. The internal combustion engine (ICE), although over one hundred years in the making, is woefully inefficient when it comes to converting the stored energy in a fuel into usable energy. Even the best engines are a mere 25-30% […]

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