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06-30-2008, 03:42 PM
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HCCI: GM making advances with its "newest" fuel-economy improving engine tech
From MotorTrend.
Sorry if its a repost or already known information. Some info on GM's Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engines. Click Link for Article: http://www.motortrend.com/features/a...tem/index.html
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06-30-2008, 04:01 PM
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Re: HCCI: GM making advances with its "newest" fuel-economy improving engine tech
I read about it before (I think Car and Driver)...it's a pretty cool technology, and I hope it works for the long term.
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06-30-2008, 08:17 PM
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Re: HCCI: GM making advances with its "newest" fuel-economy improving engine tech
Looks like they're making very rapid progress with HCCI. They weren't even talking about this a 18 months ago.
I bet with its narrow band of operation, it's well suited to powering, oh, say, a range-extender engine on, oh, maybe, plug-in hybrid? D'ya think? |
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06-30-2008, 09:16 PM
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Re: HCCI: GM making advances with its "newest" fuel-economy improving engine tech
What a great find. Most excellent.
Did anyone else catch the "using less than half the gasoline" comment? Whoah. I can see it now..... Quote:
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07-01-2008, 12:16 AM
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Re: HCCI: GM making advances with its "newest" fuel-economy improving engine tech
i can see this in application by the end of the next year. 35mpg average here we come.
now i'm somewhat confured though, i know hcci comusts gasoline by compression, but is gm working on a system where they inject water into the cylinder every fourth cycle to reduce the gas usage further or is that a different system that i'm thinking of?
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07-01-2008, 12:19 AM
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Re: HCCI: GM making advances with its "newest" fuel-economy improving engine tech
Interesting. Wonder if it'll add to the cost of the car at all?
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07-01-2008, 10:36 AM
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07-02-2008, 01:08 AM
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Re: HCCI: GM making advances with its "newest" fuel-economy improving engine tech
Great!
Let's get this science project in commercials and in the showroom! Things like this cold help make Saturn a real volume-seller. "re-think?" |
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07-02-2008, 01:10 AM
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Every flimsy switch, every panel of sheetmetal not changed from platform mate, and every technology featured not put into the DIC, instrument cluster, or radio, has paid for this R&D science project. I hope it gets deployed. |
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