Current Events > Mazda has made the latest breakthrough in internal combustion engines.

(+) Yeah! (+)

They have managed to make an engine that does compression ignition (diesel style) on gasoline, along with the option of having it spark controlled during high speed use.

This technology is rated to increase fuel efficiency and power by 20-30% compared to their current, already fuel efficient 4-cylinders, and is slated to be in all their cars in 2019.

http://www.motortrend.com/news/mazda-to-launch-compression-ignition-gas-engine-by-2019/
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I watched a video on YouTube the other day off a Chevy Colorado prototype for he military that uses a hydrogen fuel cell and produces only water. It was really cool
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Leight_Weight posted...

I watched a video on YouTube the other day off a Chevy Colorado prototype for he military that uses a hydrogen fuel cell and produces only water. It was really cool

hasn't this tech Beena round for years and the dude who came up with it mysteriously disappeared

I remember reading about it some times back

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.
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Trayvon posted...

Leight_Weight posted...

I watched a video on YouTube the other day off a Chevy Colorado prototype for he military that uses a hydrogen fuel cell and produces only water. It was really cool

hasn't this tech Beena round for years and the dude who came up with it mysteriously disappeared

I remember reading about it some times back

Yeah man people get killed for shit like that because of the possibility of putting oil barons out of power. Fuck, they'd skin your entire extended family and force feed you their remains for even trying to do this shit.
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Why don't they get on making cars without all the damn digital computer panel bs that's not needed, makes the car feel like I'm driving an office desk and is just more shit to break and cost hundreds if not thousands to fix. And stop covering all the engine in plastic coverings! And get rid of those damn wretched blinding led headlights!
Then I'll be impressed. In the meantime they can blow all this other crap out their asses.
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Chicken posted...

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

Wrong. Cars that use gas will still be the majority of new car sales for a long time.
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fan357 posted...

Chicken posted...

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

Wrong. Cars that use gas will still be the majority of new car sales for a long time.

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Look me up in ten years and tell me what kind of powertrain sells the most new units in North America.
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Chicken posted...

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

You have to wonder if Mazda even has the capital to look into alternative fuel engines. In the automotive market, they're just a drop in the bucket and don't command the sales of Honda, Toyota, or even Nissan.
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Chicken posted...

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

Yeah, they should make a car that runs on water. It would be like a car, but it runs on water, man!

DonaldClinton posted...

Chicken posted...

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

Yeah, they should make a car that runs on water. It would be like a car, but it runs on water, man!

ITP the only two things that exist in this universe is water and gasoline.
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Meanwhile the American companies begged the government to roll back the fuel efficiency standards.
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Mazda has always stayed on the cutting edge of ICE technology. They were playing around with Miller cycle engines in the 90s. That's just how they roll.

@Chicken posted...

DonaldClinton posted...

Chicken posted...

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

Yeah, they should make a car that runs on water. It would be like a car, but it runs on water, man!

ITP the only two things that exist in this universe is water and gasoline.

ITP we don't get That 70's Show references. SAD!

DonaldClinton posted...

@Chicken posted...

DonaldClinton posted...

Chicken posted...

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

Yeah, they should make a car that runs on water. It would be like a car, but it runs on water, man!

ITP the only two things that exist in this universe is water and gasoline.

ITP we don't get That 70's Show references. SAD!

Sorry I havent watched it in quite a few years. I thought you were just being a Sassy Sally.
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I remember when That 70s show debuted. I'm so old.
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Chicken posted...

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no fuckin excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

That's everyone else's job when they are just a intermediate volume manufacturer with limited R&D budget, and they can just partner up with other brands such as the latest Mazda/Toyota EV partnership (they are also licensing hybrid tech from Toyota for other markets).
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Very nice, Mazda.

Why don't they get on making cars without all the damn digital computer panel bs that's not needed, makes the car feel like I'm driving an office desk and is just more s*** to break and cost hundreds if not thousands to fix. And stop covering all the engine in plastic coverings! And get rid of those damn wretched blinding led headlights!
Then I'll be impressed. In the meantime they can blow all this other crap out their asses.

Lmao, this so hard.

Why arent they focusing on alternative fuel engines? This is cool and all but there's no f***in excuse in this day and age. Its like investing money in researching new ways to make VCR's.

I'm going to contest the implied claim thst there's a problem with VCR's.
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Eh, I don't think it'll be that great. The main limiting factor when compressing gasoline is the octane number. You can control the ignition as much as you want, the max attained pressure won't change.

But we'll see.
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Trayvon posted...

Leight_Weight posted...

I watched a video on YouTube the other day off a Chevy Colorado prototype for he military that uses a hydrogen fuel cell and produces only water. It was really cool

hasn't this tech Beena round for years and the dude who came up with it mysteriously disappeared

I remember reading about it some times back

I don't know about any of this conspiracy shit, but the reason why hydrogen cars never took off is because you can't drive down to the nearest corner on the street and fill your car up with hydrogen.

That's literally the only reason.

Oil is so entrenched in our economy that it's hard to move off it. While hydrogen is the most abundant element, and people on average live within a few miles of a hydrogen processing facility, almost nobody actually has convenient access to hydrogen in a form that is useable for fuel.
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meanwhile at Volvo:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/05/volvo-cars-electric-hybrid-2019
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I don't know about any of this conspiracy s***, but the reason why hydrogen cars never took off is because you can't drive down to the nearest corner on the street and fill your car up with hydrogen.

That's literally the only reason.

It's a more involved reason than it sounds like, though. Where do you get hydrogen and oxygen to put in stations in the first place? Generally you split it from water, which just reraises the question of how you generate clean energy. It's true that you could do it with hydro or solar, which you can't do with a gasoline car, but realistically it's also going to happen with coal or gas.
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Better to have more efficiency, however this is a mere stopgap as electric is the future.
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