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The 2012 model that goes on sale this fall uses an advanced gasoline engine technology the company calls Skyactiv.
For decades, Chinese have worked hard to wrest conventional diesel and gasoline engine technology away from global automakers through tech transfer agreements.
Another new gasoline engine technology, this one coming from Honda, is a refinement of its variable-valve technology that adjusts the opening and closing of engine valves to maximize performance, reduce emissions and conserve fuel.
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But gasoline-engine technology has also progressed to the point where the case for diesels at this end of the market is more difficult to make.
The Golf R also made its US debut, along with a concept edition of the US-market Passat, called the Passat BlueMotion, which aims to highlight VW's fuel-sipping gasoline-engine technology.
As regulatory measures for improved fuel economy and decreased emissions are pushing gasoline engine combustion technologies towards extreme conditions (i.e., boosted and intercooled intake with exhaust gas recirculation), fuel ignition characteristics become increasingly important for enabling stable operation.
Another promising area is gasoline direct-injection (GDI) engine technology, in which Mitsubishi is a world leader.
The soot nanoparticulates from diesel engines possess some unique structural characteristics that are unlike those emitted from a standard gasoline engine or a new technology diesel engine (Su et al., 2004).
In a seminal 2009 lecture, Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google, spoke about how the Wright brothers combined bicycle technology, kite technology, and the gasoline engine to create their flying machine in 1903.
But aggressive research on a hybrid with a diesel engine could yield a 2020 vehicle that is twice as efficient and half as polluting as that "evolved" technology, and future gasoline engine hybrids will not be far behind, the study says.
The goal is to shave weight from the vehicle and wring efficiency out of a standard gasoline engine and drivetrain without employing hybrid technology or continuously variable transmissions.
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