Next Gen Skyactiv Powerplants To Approach EV Emmision Levels

Mazda has confirmed details about its next Skyactiv petrol engines. These will be fitted to its next generation of cars, likely to begin with the next Mazda6 in 2018, and will offer a 30 per cent improvement in efficiency.

That means today’s 118bhp Mazda3 Skyactiv petrol would improve from 55.4mpg and 119g/km of CO2 emissions, to around 70mpg and under 85g/km.

However, despite the claims, the new engines are only just being testing on dynos in Mazda’s R&D centre in Japan, and are yet to power a car.

A third generation of Skyactiv petrol engine, due in 2025, improves this to around 50g/km, with well-to-wheel CO2 emissions so low that they’re close that those of current electric cars. 

 

vdiv - 3/20/2014 5:26:00 PM

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Uhm, good luck with that.

MattDarringer - 3/20/2014 10:26:19 PM

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And pigs will fly! "Earth Dreams" and "SkyActiv" are 100% marketing BS for engines that pass emissions, but the PR people want to spin as something revolutionary when literally there is NOTHING revolutionary about the powerplants.

irishmike - 3/21/2014 1:24:29 AM

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Eh...Matt, 'better duck. Pigs are flying your way. The names for these new technologies may be goofy, but the product bearing these connotations are proving themselves. Check it out.

vdiv - 3/21/2014 12:53:09 PM

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But are they revolutionary, and are they sufficient? To say that the emissions for an ICE approaches that of an EV that does not have any emissions is ridiculous at best, and bullshit marketing at its worst.

valhallakey - 3/21/2014 6:31:33 PM

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vdiv - I don't think there is a standard to measure the pollution created by charging EVs. The main benefit is moving the pollution somewhere else (i.e. the power plant). If they are coal fired then particulate matter would be even greater than modern diesel and gasoline engined cars. If it is charged via green technology like windmills, solar etc… then there is no pollution in the operation of the car. Finally there is the huge mining operations to get the metals required for all these batteries which produces not only pollution but some horribly defaced landscapes. Recycle, buy a low emission used car?