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Mazda Targeting Average 30% Cut in Fuel Consumption of All its Cars by 2015

Posted on June 23, 2008

The operating principle of Mazda s Smart Idle Stop System (SISS). Click to enlarge.Mazda Motor Corporation is targeting an average 30% reduction in the fuel consumption of its new vehicles worldwide by 2015. To achieve the reduction, Mazda will apply lightweight technologies, upgrade almost all of its gasoline engines, introduce the Smart Idle Stop System worldwide, and introduce a new gasoline rotary engine and new diesel engines worldwide.By 2015, Mazda says it will have renewed almost its entire powertrain lineup and, from 2011, aims to reduce the weight of its new vehicles by 100 kilogra...

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