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Electrically supercharged gasoline engine achieves diesel levels of CO2

By Mike Hanlon

19:44 May 5, 2009 PDT

Electrically supercharged gasoline engine achieves diesel levels of CO2

We have previously written about the potential of UK-based Controlled Power Technologies' (CPT) electrically driven supercharger and that potential came closer to realization this week when CPT and the world’s largest independent developer of vehicle powertrains, AVL List GmbH (AVL), unvelied a jointly developed gasoline engine that retains all the strengths, develops more power and at the same time reduces CO2 levels to that of an equivalent diesel powertrain. Read More

 
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