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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 09 2017, @10:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-vroom-per-mile dept.

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Mazda Motor Corp said it would become the world's first automaker to commercialize a much more efficient petrol engine using technology that deep-pocketed rivals have been trying to engineer for decades, a twist in an industry increasingly going electric.

The new compression ignition engine is 20 percent to 30 percent more fuel efficient than the Japanese automaker's current engines and uses a technology that has eluded the likes of Daimler AG and General Motors Co.

Mazda, with a research and development (R&D) budget a fraction of those of major peers, said it plans to sell cars with the new engine from 2019.

"It's a major breakthrough," said Ryoji Miyashita, chairman of automotive engineering company AEMSS Inc.

[...] A homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine ignites petrol through compression, eliminating spark plugs. Its fuel economy potentially matches that of a diesel engine without high emissions of nitrogen oxides or sooty particulates.

[...] AEMSS' Miyashita said a key issue would be how smooth and responsive the engine is.

"Is it jerky? If so, that would pose a big question when it comes to commercializing this technology." he said. "Hopefully Mazda has an answer to that question."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mazda-strategy-idUSKBN1AO0E7


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @12:27AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @12:27AM (#551369)
    Two words: Dunning and Kruger. It is the height of arrogance to believe that one has figured out something so simple from a few minutes of Google and Wikipedia that teams of highly trained and experienced automotive engineers working on the problem for decades with billions of dollars in R&D money behind them had missed.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @12:34AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @12:34AM (#551373)

    Experienced engineers who have been working for decades are too old to be working. Time to hire more young and shoot the olds in the head.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday August 10 2017, @01:29AM (1 child)

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday August 10 2017, @01:29AM (#551397)

      The young are too busy writing worthless cellphone apps and ugly flat-UI web pages to do anything useful.

      Of course, the older guys didn't come up with this breakthrough either, in America: it took Japanese engineers to achieve this. Who knows whether they're young or old or a mix. But considering I don't see a bunch of shitty flat-UI and Web 2.0 garbage coming out of Japan, and instead I see major engine technology improvements, a fantastic high-speed train system, and infrastructure which makes America look like a backwards 3rd-world nation, while the best America can do is Windows Metro UI and a $1 trillion fighter jet boondoggle that can't dogfight, I believe there's clear evidence of an inverse correlation here: one nation can actually get useful stuff done, the other can't.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @04:12AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @04:12AM (#551443)

        American Engineers love innovation.

        American MANAGEMENT hate innovation.

        Go to any industry and you'll see the biggest stagnation to tech... is the profit margins. Cable Internet should be faster. Intel has HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of viable patents for proven technology that they ONLY ROLL OUT when AMD starts competing. It's such an amazing coincidence that Intel's prices fall 2x-3x overnight when a new AMD line comes out... yet only in the region where the AMD processors compete on price and performance. Strangely, the highest models... haven't fallen in price.