{"id":223774,"date":"2017-08-08T21:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=223774"},"modified":"2017-08-08T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:42:20","slug":"mazda-compression-ignition-engine-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/223774-mazda-compression-ignition-engine-breakthrough.html","title":{"rendered":"Mazda compression ignition engine breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mazda has made a breakthrough in compression ignition engine technology that will be 20%-30% more fuel efficient than its current engines, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mazda-strategy-idUSKBN1AO0E7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Daimler and General Motors have been trying to develop the technology for decades, but Mazda developed it first.<\/p>\n<p>A homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine ignites petrol through compression, eliminating the need for spark plugs.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that its fuel economy could match that of a diesel engine,\u00a0without high emissions of nitrogen oxides or sooty particulates.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that\u00a0Mazda&#8217;s engine still uses spark plugs under certain conditions, such as at low temperatures, to deal with the technical hurdles that prevented the commercialisation of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Mazda said it will start selling cars with the new engine from 2019.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/207940-how-much-it-cost-to-buy-a-second-hand-car-in-south-africa-in-1992.html\">How much it cost to buy a second-hand car in South Africa in 1992<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mazda has made a breakthrough in compression ignition engine technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":223778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29366],"tags":[33635],"class_list":["post-223774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-mazda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223780,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223774\/revisions\/223780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}