..thought this might be of interest to those that have gas engines on board
"In addition to employing lightweight design, hybrid drives, and optimized injection systems, automotive industry development engineers are designing smaller internal combustion engines in order to achieve their ambitious targets of significant reductions in vehicle fuel consumption, and thus of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, in the next few years. Early market analysis by Continental led to the conclusion that almost all European and Asian engine manufacturers were focusing on developing small turbocharged gasoline engines, and that there were excellent opportunities for growth in this segment in the next few years"
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