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UPDATE: Ford's new Bobcat, ethanol injected, turbocharged V8

Back in the 1970s, a Bobcat at Ford was a Mercury-badged version of the infamous Pinto. Hopefully, the new usage of the name at Ford will turn out with better results. So far, it's looking very promising. Our buddy Mike Levine has been doing some digging in the document treasure trove at the U.S. Department of Energy and uncovered some materials on Ford's new Bobcat. It turns out Bobcat is the code name for the new ethanol boosted engine being developed in Dearborn. Ford recently presented some data on Bobcat to the DOE that has fallen into ... Read more →

A nifty new way to use Ethanol? Art Vatsky

Frequent readers of ABG know we keep track of the way Saab has been working on a small, powerful E85/E100 optimized engine that can also use gasoline though that will cause a power reduction. Car and ...

UPDATE: Ford's new Bobcat, ethanol injected, turbocharged V8 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Back in the 1970s, a Bobcat at Ford was a Mercury-badged version of the infamous Pinto. Hopefully, the new usage of the name at Ford will turn out with better results. So far, it's looking very promising. Our buddy Mike Levine has been doing some digging in the document treasure trove at the U.S. ...

A nifty new way to use Ethanol? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Frequent readers of ABG know we keep track of the way Saab has been working on a small, powerful E85/E100 optimized engine that can also use gasoline though that will cause a power reduction. Car and Driver magazine's Csaba Csere reports on another variation of this basic theme: Downsize the engine ...


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