Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Mazda Wins Fleet Award

Mazda aims to further refine the traditional technologies to reduce fuel consumption and significantly reduce the level of CO2 emitted by their vehicles. For this she received the prestigious Fleet Award, which recognizes the importance to the House of Hiroshima Skyactive of its new technology. The first fruit of this revolution we will see at the Frankfurt Motor Show, at the Motor Show and will be the new 1.3-liter engine concealed under the bonnet of the Mazda 2 restyling, which will be presented today at the convention center in Tokyo.

The main innovation of this engine with the operation cycle in which Miller includes a large extended opening hours of the valves in the compression stroke of the piston to reduce friction by 30%. This result was achieved thanks to a thin shaft. But this engine has other goodies such as direct injection injectors multihole, a compression ratio very high, the device to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and restart the system i-stop for more rapid restoration of power .

With all these devices that take advantage of most of the 130 patents for the technology Skyactive by Mazda, the Mazda 2, can travel under the House 30 km per liter in the Japanese medium cycle. This result was achieved without auxiliary electrical motors or alternative fuels.

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