This new Focus, like PZEV's from 11 other automakers, is designed to meet the strict new environmental rules in a handful of states, and they do so with mostly mundane, relatively low-cost modificiations to existing gas-engine technologies -- like revised catalytic converters that heat up very quickly to cut the pollution produced by cold engines.
"I asked myself how a car with just a battery can compete in the marketplace against one with a gas engine and 100 years of technology and development behind it," he says.
At its fuel-efficient best, hybrid technology allows the gas engine to be taken over by a silent electric motor.
"I asked myself how a car with just a battery can compete in the marketplace against one with a gas engine and a hundred years of technology and development behind it," he says.
It's all happening under the hood, where improvements in engine technology are turning gas-guzzlers into relative fuel-sippers, yet still delivering the horsepower, acceleration and utility that American consumers crave.
The result illustrates that gas engine is currently the most popular DER technology from the economic point of view.
One of our most exciting products is the combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, which uses jet engine technology combined with steam turbine technology to rotate generators that produce electricity.
It's one way to characterize Ford's new technology for the traditional gas engine that will increase fuel efficiency - and decrease CO2 emissions.
Today's pickup trucks also get better gas mileage than older models, thanks to advances in engine technology (such as Ford's EcoBoost engines) and weight savings from using aluminum in some instances instead of steel.
Plus, engine technology has done a huge amount to improve gas mileage.
