VanDyne SuperTurbo, a member of the Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative’s incubator program, will design, develop and produce a hybrid superturbocharger that can deliver fuel savings of 25 percent in passenger vehicles and heavy-duty engines. VanDyne SuperTurbo Inc. has just spun out of Fort Collins-based Woodward Governor, where the technology for the superturbocharger was developed during [...]
As America continues to face roller coaster prices at the gas pumps and a constant reliance on foreign oil, will that pave the road for hybrid electric cars? It could, if a new survey is accurate. Around 48 percent of American consumers asked said they would be extremely or very interested in buying a plug-in [...]
As the figure of merit for fuel economy, the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE is using MPGe (miles per gallon energy equivalent), defined as: MPGe = (miles driven) / [(total energy of all fuels consumed)/(energy of one gallon of gasoline)]) MPGe is a simple, well-defined measure of overall vehicle efficiency. MPGe is easy to explain, [...]