For example, the optimized engine Auto Start Stop feature now turns the engine off earlier while coasting to a stop.
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The superheated particles turn to glass inside the engine and stop it dead.
The 2013 Kia Rio, for instance, joins the BMW 3-series and Porsche Cayenne in offering a start-stop engine.
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"In French Guiana, this will be same - plus, we will have the capacity to telecommand to stop the engine, " explained Jean-Marc Astorg, from the French space agency (Cnes), who has led the Soyuz in French Guiana project.
The Delphi connectivity system's key fob service operates over the Verizon Wireless network or via Bluetooth to remotely lock or unlock doors, open the trunk, start or stop the engine and operate a panic horn on select vehicles.
"Trying to keep it from happening would have been like the Teamsters in the early 1900s trying to stop the combustion engine, " Lavin says.
Work will continue to give Ariane 5 a major upgrade, to provide it with a more powerful upper-stage engine that will also have a stop-start capability.
Maximum fuel economy is achieved in ECO mode, with the stop-start on and engine response and output dialed way back.
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The need for the parts of an engine to fit together tightly enough to stop hot gases seeping where they should not, and yet not so tightly that they rub on each other in a way that wears them out, is a constant bane of engine designers.
Meanwhile, the feds' fuel-economy administrators are currently operating at a dead run trying to keep up with a host of new, highly digitized fuel-saving technologies, such as "Eco" throttle mapping and stop-start (the engine cuts out as the vehicle coasts or stops), which were practically invented to hack the EPA testing cycle.
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The engine was chosen to haul LNER's new non-stop London-Scotland rail service in 1928.
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