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updated 29 July 04
by 4ecotips.com
The technology behind a revolution
in cleaner, greener and smarter diesel
cars that will be designed and sold
throughout the world by Ford is being
researched at the University of Bath.
Using a new £1.6 million grant
from the Government's Science Research
Investment Fund and £350,000
from Ford, the University of Bath's
Department of Mechanical Engineering
is carrying out research into ways
of significantly improving the fuel
consumption of diesel engines and
reducing harmful emissions.
These changes include making the
temperature control and cooling mechanism
of the engines more efficient and
increasing the number of engine parts
that are powered by electricity rather
than mechanically.
The research will help to reduce
the pollutants coming from diesel
engines by half over the next seven
years, continuing a long trend of
reducing vehicle waste emissions.
The research will
help Ford's work with PSA Peugeot
Citroen on improved diesel engines.
The cleaner, more efficient engines
are behind the dramatic increase in
diesel sales - it is estimated that
by 2008 half of all new cars sold
in Europe will use diesel.
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