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    • Bob Brooks

    About the author: Bob Brooks is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a longtime automotive technology journalist specializing in powertrains and fuels.
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    GM Develops Flameless Combustion for Future Car Power Options

    Bob Brooks
    Jan. 1, 2020
    MILFORD, MI (Aug. 28, 2007) - General Motors' efforts to develop Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) gasoline engine technology, alternatively called Controlled Auto...
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    Jatropha: A Non-Food, Non-Celluolosic Biofuel Source

    Bob Brooks
    Jan. 1, 2020
    BP has joined 50/50 with a UK biofuel firm, D1 Oils Ltd, in a 2.5 million acre, $160 million program to step up production of non-food and non-cellulosic based biodiesel fuel....
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    $2500 Car Stirs World Interest

    Bob Brooks
    Jan. 1, 2020
    NEW DEHLI, INDIA - Industrialist Ratan Tata is expected to introduce his $2,500, four-door car possibly as early as January at Delhi's Auto Expo., according to the Financial Times...
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    Game-Changer: Breakthrough Mercedes Gasoline Engine Uses Less Fuel Than Diesels

    Bob Brooks
    Jan. 1, 2020
    STUTTGART, GERMANY (August 6, 2007) - New data released by Mercedes-Benz on its advanced technology 1.8L DiesOtto gasoline engine reveals the fuel consumption impact of breakthrough...