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 The premium brand of DaimlerChrysler, Mercedes-Benz, is working on a new type of four-cylinder engine that combines features of petrol and diesel motors in order to generate 238 horsepower while using less than 6 liters of standard petrol per 100 km, informs Reuters.
The company said in a statement this figure by no means relates to a small or compact car, but to a vehicle the size of the current (Mercedes-Benz) S-Class, with the level of comfort and safety that is typical of a Mercedes. The move is the carmakers effort to make petrol and diesel engines more efficient and less polluting to ensure they remain in broad use even as alternative drivetrains such as hydrogen fuel cells arrive. “DiesOtto” combines the German words for diesel and petrol engines and envisions an engine with a displacement of only 1.8 liters, turbocharged for high performance and using petrol direct injection for high efficiency.
Volkswagen is already working on something similar and said in a statement it plans to roll it out by the middle of the next decade. The auto maker already offers a technology with its 1.4 liter TSI petrol engine that unites a mechanically driven supercharger and a turbocharger, which is currently offered with the Golf GT Sport compact, has 168 horsepower and can sprint from 0-62 miles per hour in 7.9 seconds but can travel 38.7 miles on one gallon of petrol.
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