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HCCI engines.....has anyone heard of them?

Created August 21, 2008, at 11:35 pm by Bryce

Well, anyone heard of these? They are purported to be a regular combustion engine minus an ignition system in the cylinder that simply uses the compression to ignite it making the engine use less fuel for an improvement of 15% in the mpg ratings. It is also supposed to limit pollution because it burns off most of the pollutants that would normally survive the combustion proccess.

ex-EV1 driver

Senior Member

3 years ago

Never heard of it but it sounds a lot like a standard diesel engine. I'd take a block of salt with this though. "most" of the pollutants are burned off in any combustion engine. It's the remainder that cause the problems.

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