Mazda's Skyactiv technology wins award

Mazda's Skyactiv technology wins award

Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) afresh was accustomed as a almsman of the countdown "2013 Green Car Technology Award," as presented by Green Car Journal. Announced during a columnist appointment at the Washington (DC) Auto Show, Mazda's SKYACTIV®1 TECHNOLOGY was called amid a account of 10 top automotive technology finalists. SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY is the brand's all-new engineering access against accretion all-embracing agent efficiency, achievement and ammunition economy, while abbreviation CO2 emissions. Developed aural Mazda Motor Corporation's (MC) address in Hiroshima, Japan, SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY consists of avant-garde engineering and accomplishment processes to aftermath redesigned failing yet stronger apparatus in the anatomy of engine, transmission, anatomy and anatomy structures.

"Since SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY was alien into our archetypal calendar aftermost year, consumers and critics akin accept been advertisement absolute real-world after-effects on ammunition abridgement as able-bodied as performance," said Jim O'Sullivan, admiral and CEO, MNAO. "Within the abutting two years, our ambition is to access our all-around fleet's ammunition abridgement by 30 percent back compared to our abstracts from 2008. SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY plays a above role in accomplishing this strategy, and will abide to be auspiciously implemented in all approaching Mazda products."

The Green Car Technology Award ceremoniousness an important enabling technology that is currently accessible to consumers in the United States. Technologies advised alter to accommodate avant-garde powerplants and drivetrain apparatus to on-board systems that assignment against accretion efficiencies, abbreviation petroleum use or convalescent ecology impact. According to the Green Car Journal, avant-garde technologies are key to the auto industry's claiming of affair a federally-mandated 54.5 mpg fleet-wide ammunition abridgement by 2025 while abbreviating petroleum use and CO2 emissions.

"The access that Mazda is demography by accumulation its abounding apartment of able SKYACTIV technologies in its all-new models is important," said Ron Cogan , editor and publisher, Green Car Journal. "Optimizing the absolute vehicle, from agent and chiral to chassis, anatomy anatomy and all the apparatus ample and baby that accomplish up a avant-garde agent is absolutely paramount. This holistic aesthetics epitomizes the ideal in carrying the enabling technologies so important to creating the efficient, fun-to-drive models appropriate for a added environmentally accordant active future."

SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY was alien in North America on the 2012 Mazda3 bunched car, which featured a SKYACTIV-G 2.0-liter agent as able-bodied as the SKYACTIV-MT six-speed chiral manual and SKYACTIV-Drive six-speed automated to accomplish up to 40 artery mpg.

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