Archive for September, 2009

New Hybrid Fuel Saving SuperTurboCharger

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

Would You Buy A Hybrid Car

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 hybrid [...]

What is MPGe

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. [...]


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