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New BMW M3 V8 engine features Brake Energy Regeneration

The engines in sports cars aren't built for fuel efficiency or low emissions, they're built for speed and power. It's always nice when these seemingly mutually exclusive design criteria align, but typically you're not going to see too much written about sports car V8 engines on AutoblogGreen. One such engine which we'd usually spurn is the brand new V8 powerplant that BMW is shoehorning into their M3 super sedan. There was one feature of this particular engine hidden way down the bottom of the BMW press release though that caught my green eye ... Read more →

Geneva Motor Show: Cadillac unveils powerful new V6 clean diesel engine Dane Muldoon

Click on the image for two high-res images of GM's new 2.9-liter V6 turbo-diesel engine. digg_url = ...

Volvo Trucks to display parallel hybrid diesel-electric system at U.K. show Dane Muldoon

Volvo Trucks, which has full control of the Mack Trucks brand in North America and Renault Trucks in Europe, will be showing off an example of their hybrid diesel–electric D7 engine and I-SAM ...

General Motors Medium Duty Trucks reduce diesel emissions Dane Muldoon

General Motors has announced its Medium Duty Truck lineup for the 2007i (the i stands for interim) and 2008 model years feature increased performance, increased driver comfort and reduced diesel ...

Diesels coming Mitsubishi's way via PSA Peugeot Citron Dane Muldoon

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and PSA Peugeot Citroën have announced that they have signed an agreement that will see PSA Peugeot Citroën supplying Mitsubishi with diesel engines. The ...

Piezo injection technology breaks into top engine list 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Siemens VDO has announced that for the first time an engine equipped with piezo direct injection gasoline (DIG) technology has featured in Ward's 10 Best Engine List of 2007. The 300 hp / 224 kW BMW 335i Twin Turbo 3-liter engine, which features Siemens VDO DIG technology, was unveiled at the Geneva ...

Automotive History: How did we get here, and where will we go? (Part 1) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Four out of five automotive experts agree: We must do something to stop impacting our environment due to our driving habits. (Alright, fine, I made that statistic up.) What they disagree about is how to do it. I thought that sharing some history about how we got to the point we are at might interest ...

Volkswagen Twincharger TSI wins "Best New Engine of 2006" 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen TSI engine found in Europe in the Golf GT won the "Best New Engine of 2006" award. The TSI engine combines a supercharger with a turbocharger. The engine, with a displacement of 1.4 liter, produces 170 bhp and uses 7.2l/100 km. The high specific output of the engine allows this engine to ...


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