Contributing factors in the VOC decline cited by the NOAA include catalytic converters, improved engine efficiency, and reformatted fuels that are less prove to evaporation.
Excluding the engine, where efficiency will reach Italian levels only when a new engine plant is opened, it takes around 21 man-hours to build a Palio in Betim, or about two hours more than it would at Melfi, the firm's most modern Italian plant.
Scuderi says its split-cycle engine increases overall efficiency by up to 50 percent and cuts down on NOx gases at the same time by changing the way air gets channeled through an engine.
More performance and efficiency in a smaller powerplant: the new twin-turbo V6 engine Increasing both performance and efficiency has long been a core Porsche philosophy.
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James Watt invented the modern steam engine, doubling the efficiency of the engines that had come before.
"Trinigy remains committed to supporting the game development industry with top-notch game engine technology that combines efficiency, creative freedom and performance, " said Dag Frommhold, managing director at Trinigy.
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In a review of the Swedish supercar the Koenigsegg Agera R, I displayed ignorance regarding a common measure of an engine's volumetric efficiency, the Brake Mean Effective Pressure.
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But when the tweakers took over the efficiency of the steam engine swiftly quadrupled.
The efficiency of a car engine can be defined in terms of a miles-per-gallon equivalent.
The engine performs with a level of efficiency close to diesel, but sacrifices some of the power density.
By optimizing the split-cycle concept, the Scuderi engine is expected to reduce NOx emissions up to 80 percent and improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent, compared to a conventional gasoline engine.
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The engine will be based on the Porsche RS Spyder racing engine that demonstrated its impressive performance and efficiency through multiple Michelin Green X Challenge victories in the American Le Mans Series, the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Meanwhile, auto makers are proving there's still plenty of potential in the gas-powered engine to meet customer's fuel-efficiency demands.
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The rocket engine power plant runs at a 35% thermal efficiency, versus 55% for conventional gas-fired plants.
All three trim levels have a V6, 3.6L engine that gets 288 horsepower and a combined fuel efficiency of 20.5 miles per gallon.
One way to increase the efficiency of a high-bypass jet engine is to turn the fan into an open rotor, a bit like returning to propellers, but using two rings of stubby counter-rotating blades.
In most kinds of engine and electronics, heat is an enemy, robbing them of efficiency.
Mash the pedal in Auto EV mode and, after the electric motor pulls you off the line, there's a brief delay before the gasoline engine comes to life and the CVT raises the RPMs to maximize efficiency.
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And if you want to talk about market dynamics at the pump, then look no further than the increase in demand for hybrid cars, which can increase fuel efficiency over other mid-sized cars with the help of an electric engine.
Airbus' A380 superjumbo and Boeing's upcoming 787 Dreamliner both use new engine designs, lightweight composite materials and advances in aerodynamics to improve performance, increase fuel efficiency and lower emissions.
It is also an example of some of the features that have made capitalism the only engine for truly boosting human prosperity that has been thus far discovered: the search for efficiency, the inclusiveness.
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Conventional hybrids use mainly the gasoline engine for propulsion, drawing on the electric drive and batteries only occasionally to (impressively) improve gasoline efficiency.
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