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Peugeot Shows Three-wheel Drive Hybrid Scooter Concept: the HYbrid3 Evolution

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At the Milan International Cycle and Motorbike Show, Peugeot is presenting a three-wheel drive hybrid scooter concept: the HYbrid3 Evolution. Engine and rear wheel. The new 300 cm 3 supercharged gasoline engine providing the concept’s rear wheel drive has an output of 30 kW (41 bhp). The HYbrid3 Evolution.

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80-MPG Elio Three-Wheeled Car To Be Built At Former GM Truck Plant?

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Elio Motors is the company behind a three-wheeled car capable of 84 mpg highway, on nothing more complicated than gasoline. Startups making small, economical vehicles come and go, but one company offering a high-efficiency vehicle has big plans, buying a former General Motors assembly plant.

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Study of emissions from CNG- and gasoline-fueled autorickshaws suggests measurements and data, not assumptions, should drive policy

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Chassis dynamometer emission testing conducted on 30 in-use Indian auto-rickshaws—two-stroke and four-stroke CNG-fueled (CNG-2S and CNG-4S) and four-stroke gasoline-fueled (PET-4S)—found that global warming commitment (GWC) associated with emissions from CNG-2S was more than twice that from CNG-4S or PET-4S, due mostly to CH 4 emissions.

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Elio Motors pivots to 150-mile Elio-E EV, gasoline version still not canceled

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Last week Elio Motors put a price on a 150-mile, fully electric version of its high-efficiency, three-wheeled car: $14,900. That’s a different format—and price—than the original Elio, which still hasn’t arrived 12 years after its original announcement and 9 years after its originally anticipated arrival date.

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Elio Motors to use Flame-Spray cylinder coating for projected 10% boost in engine performance in 3-wheeler

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which will launch an enclosed, three-wheeled vehicle in 2015, has named Flame-Spray Industries , Inc., The car is powered by an inline, 3-cylinder, 1-liter, 70 hp (52 kW) gasoline fuel-injected, SOHC engine and has projected fuel economy of 84 mpg (2.8 Elio Motors, Inc., l/100km) on the highway and 49 mpg (4.8 Earlier post.).

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3-Wheeled, 84 MPG Elio Moves A Step Closer To Reality

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If you''re one of their 17,000 or so Facebook fans it''ll be hard to forget, as the company''s little green three-wheeled vehicle will be a regular fixture on your timeline. As The Detroit News reports, Elio has just released a new prototype of the tiny gasoline-powered vehicle, set to be built at an ex-GM facility in.'

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Pinnacle 4-stroke opposed-piston SI engine shows fuel economy improvements of between 30-60% at light loads, 12-30% at medium loads over conventional

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Pinnacle has signed a licensing and joint development agreement with a major, as yet unnamed, Asian vehicle OEM, with lower power products targeted for two- and three-wheel applications in the developing country markets expected to be available in the first quarter of 2013.

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