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What's old is new again: VW developed auto start/stop, DI in 1980

The great risk in predicting the future is that the odds are great that you will be wrong. Every once in while, though, you nail the ideas almost dead on. For some amusement, it's always fun to go back and peruse old issues of magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics to see what they predicted cars would look like in the next century (that would be the one we live in right now). Way back in 1980, Volkswagen built a Golf-sized experimental car dubbed VW2000. The timing was off by a few years, but the good bits were remarkably ... Read more →

Stop? Pause? A distinction without a difference with Mazda iStop Sam Abuelsamid

If an engine is not being fed any fuel and the crankshaft is not rotating, is it running? Of course not. But would you say it is stopped or paused? Both, it makes no difference. It's simply a ...

Ford's new 1.6L EcoBoost four to come in three power levels Sam Abuelsamid

When Ford introduces the next-generation Focus in Europe next year it will be powered by the first of the company's new four cylinder EcoBoost engines. The engines will be built at the Bridgend ...

Hyundai to launch direct injection for 2010 Santa Fe, Sonata Sam Abuelsamid

Hyundai's Montgomery, AL factory added production of four-cylinder engines last year, but recently the engine line has been getting some upgrades. Evidently, Hyundai is getting ready to add ...

Mercedes offering three cleaner, more powerful engines for C-class BlueEfficiency models Sam Abuelsamid

Mercedes-Benz is now offering three new direct injected engines in its C-Class BlueEfficiency models. Two of the three four cylinder engines are diesels while the other is fueled by gasoline. The ...

Lamborghini adds solar power to factory, vows to cut range CO2 35% by 2015 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

In the grand scheme of things, the facilities and products of Lamborghini don't really amount to a hill of beans. After all, the company only has one main factory that produces a few thousand cars a year. While those cars are high-powered and consume a lot of fuel per mile driven, Lamborghini ...

Is the next Mazda Renesis rotary set to get direct-injection? 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Last October, it seems that Mazda quietly filed a patent for a twin-spark, direct injection version of the automaker's iconic rotary engine. It's taken this long for anyone to actually notice application 20090101103, which appears to have been approved just last month, but it's still an ...

New York 2009: GMC Terrain gets all-DI engine lineup 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Like its mechanical twin, the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox, the new GMC Terrain is getting an engine lineup that consists entirely of direct injected engines. The base 2.4-liter EcoTec four cylinder is expected to give the Terrain an EPA highway fuel economy of 30 mpg and get cleaner cold-start ...

VIDEO: GM EcoTec chief engineer talks direct injection 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

One of the most important new technologies to come to spark ignition engines in recent years is direct fuel injection. Audi was one of the pioneers in applying the system to road cars after using it on the Le Mans-winning R8 earlier this decade. More recently, General Motors has used it on the ...

Winding Road takes a look at direct injection 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

While it may seem that direct injection is just the latest and greatest way to dump fuel into an engine, the reality is that DI technology is the absolute best way to inject dead dinos in an engine. How so? Past efforts to increase power and fuel efficiency, while laudable, all had at least one ...

More on GM's new direct injected engines 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

At a media preview today at the General Motors technical center, we got a few more details on GM's new direct injected four and six cylinder engines that will debut in several 2010 models. Both the 2.4L four cylinder and 3.0L V6 get variable cam phasing on both the intake and exhaust cam-shafts. ...

General Motors introduces 2 new direct injected engines for 2010 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

For 2010 General Motors is adding two new high volume direct injected engines two its lineup. The latest addition to the EcoTec four cylinder family is a normally aspirated 2.4L with variable valve timing. The four cylinder engine has dished pistons and an 11.4:1 compression ratio. The result is ...

LA 2008: Hyundai rolls out HED-5 i-Mode for first time on U.S. soil 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

We first saw Hyundai's rolling CUV shapeship, the HED-5 i-Mode, back in Geneva, but today at the LA Auto Show is the first time the Korean automaker has shown the car in the States. New to the crossover is a 2.0L gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine that Hyundai plans to roll out in ...

Automobile Magazine names direct injection Technology of the Year 12 months ago on Autoblog Green

A number of automakers are beginning to roll out gasoline engines that use direct injection. Oil-burning diesel engines have been using direct injection a bit longer. In a DI engine, the fuel is sprayed directly into the combustion chamber, allowing a computer to precisely meter the correct amount ...

Several 2010 GM models likely to get new direct injected 3.0L V6 and 2.3L I4 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors appears set to introduce two new direct injected engines to its lineup for the 2010 model year. A newly downsized 3.0L version of the 3.6L "high feature" V6 used across much of GM's lineup is set to launch in the redesigned Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac SRX and Chevrolet Equinox. The ...

No oil burning for the prancing horse, Ferrari rejects diesels 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ferrari has set itself an aggressive goal of reducing the carbon dioxide emissions of its cars by 40 percent over the next four years. The company will have to make some pretty drastic changes to its powertrains to achieve that reduction from 400 g/km to about 280 g/km. One change it has no ...

Lotus wins award for HOTFIRE engine that cuts CO2 by 15% 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Another of Lotus Engineering's research projects into more efficient motoring has been recognized. This time around, Project HOTFIRE received an accolade from The Engineer Technology + Innovation Awards 2008. HOTFIRE was a joint effort with Continental, University College London (UCL) and ...

Hyundai going down the DI and weight reduction path for more MPG 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hyundai is already near the top of the fuel economy ranks in the U.S. market, but that's not enough to meet future requirements. Currently, Hyundai trails only Honda and Toyota in the CAFE race. Going forward, Hyundai plans to upgrade its powertrains and reduce mass to get its conventional vehicles ...

Porsche ALMS race engine to go direct injection 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

From track to road and back to track again. That is the path for gasoline direct fuel injection. In the late 90s Audi added direct injection to its R8 Le Mans prototype in order to get more power while consuming less fuel. In racing reducing fuel consumption is important because it allows cars to ...

Next Chevy Equinox to be equipped with a 2.3L DI 4 cylinder 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The automotive world will be getting a new Chevy Equinox bestowed upon it for the 2009 model year, and news from General Motors now places a 2.3L direct-injected four-cylinder engine underhood. Currently, the Equinox comes equipped with a boat-anchor of a base engine in the form of a 185-horsepower ...


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