INTRODUCTION
In these days of excruciating economic realities on ground, many car owners, and even potential car buyers, are looking for various ways to increase their cars fuel economy.

Those objectives, can be achieved, by ensuring that your car has got any of the following fuel efficient technologies embedded in it.

1. ENGINE TECHNOLOGIES
Nowadays, in a bid to outsmart each other, auto manufacturers, have improved on already existing technologies in the engine related fuel savings, as found in the technologies below:

¶Cylinder deactivation system. This system, enables cylinders that are not in use to be deactivated. For instance, on vehicles with a V6, or a V8 engine, with the activation of the cylinder deactivation system, the V6 is converted to a 3cylinder engine, whilst the V8 to a V6 engine. This helps increases fuel economy up to 5%.
Application of this technology can be found on Honda Cross tour, etc.

¶Turbochargers. Turbocharging an engine, increase performance, without

¶Direct fuel injection system. Before the advent of this technology, fuel/air mixtures occurs in the intake manifold, where it's then sent straight to the combustion chambers. This wasn't providing the much needed fuel economy. Then came the direct fuel injection technique, that directs the mixture straight into the combustion chamber. These gave the needed efficient combustion, and economy. No unnecessary fuel was wasted in the process, and the spray pattern, was precise.

¶Variable valve timing and lift(VVT). This system varies the intake and exhaust valves of the engine, according to the vehicle speed of the engine.
It improves engine efficiency, by allowing the injection if fuel and air into the engine for various engine speeds.
In the fixed system, the intake of air/fuel mixture into the combustion chambers, and the exhaustion of the burnt gases where already fixed from the factor. So, that causes a lot of fuel economy problems, resulting into its modifications to the VVT system.
Various car manufacturers call the variable valve timing and lift different names. But they still operate on the same principle.

2. TRANSMISSIONS
Without a transmission system on a car, your car won't move you any where.
Transmission systems adds awhile lot of load on an engine, during driving. Take for instance. If you've got a car with a 3speed forward gear, you'd notice the engine won't operate at its optimal level, because of the few gear ratios its got. This stresses the engine, and contributes to a poor fuel economy.
It's in trying to resolve some of the fuel economy issues that cars have being in one way or the other, embedded with any of the following technologies:

¶Continuously variable transmission (CVT). This type of transmission system has no definite number of gear ratios. This I mean, that as you drive tour car, if it's a CVT transmission type, the acceleration is always seamless(you don't feel the normal jerk, or feelings, when a standard transmission engages). It is this seamlessness, and it's small size, that contributes to it's fuel economy.
Though such transmissions are expensive, and very sensitive to fluids.
***CVT have their own different transmission fluids. Do not use a any other transmission fluids, asides a CVT specifications recommended by your manufacturer.

¶Additional forward gears. The higher the forward gears, the better the fuel economy of an engine.
Nowadays, auto manufacturers are increasing the number of gear rations on their various cars, to meet up with fuel economy competitions.
Some cars have improved their forward gears from 4-almost 8 gears. Examples, of these, you find on car racing, etc.
When buying your next car, research the number of forward gears it has. That would save you up to 2-4% fuel savings.

¶Automated manual transmission (AMT). This system works as a normal conventional automatic transmission, as far as the car owner is concerned, but it at the same time eliminates the inefficiencies that are always associated with conventional automatic transmission. The system uses a clutch instead of a torque converter to attach the engine to the transmission. It shifts all of its gears using electronic actuators, as found in some conventional automatic transmission system.
So, the next time you change your transmission system, and notice it has a clutch instead of a converter system, know its an AMT.

¶Dual clutch transmission (DCT). Its different from an ATM system, and Its sometimes known as a twin clutch, because it has two clutch packs, that are each assigned to allow the selection of an odd numbered gear, and an even numbered gear ration.
It has a smooth shift, and reduces fuel consumption by 6-9%, compared to a conventional 6-speed automatic transmission.

3. HYBRID TECHNOLOGY
There are different types of hybrid technology in place nowadays.
The following are the ones that are in their games, in terms of fuel consumption:

¶Idle-stop. A car comes to a stop, during deceleration, or at traffic stops, and suddenly resumes operations during driving.
This saves fuel fuel constant idling.
About 2% is fuel is saved.

¶Mild hybrids. Fuel savings employing this technology, is conservatively 3-6%.
This system employs the idle-stop, and a regenerative braking, where all the supposed energies wasted are captured, and reused.
Example of this technology is found on the Honda accord hybrids.

¶Full hybrids. They utilise idle-stop, regenerative braking, and larger electric motors and batteries to increase fuel economy, especially in a stop-and-go driving.

4. OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
¶Vehicle weight reduction. Unnecessary loads in your car, contributes to excess fuel use. Thus is because, the engine would require more pulling power to get the car going.
Remove all spare parts stocked in your car's booth. They add unnecessary load on the engine.
You'd conservatively achieve 1-3% fuel savings, per 5% reduction in weight.

¶Low rolling resistance tires. Such tires add more drag on on the car, because much energy is being lost.




Conclusion.
Car manufacturers are daily coming up with fuel saving techniques to help cushion in the effects of high fuel prices, and fuel inefficiencies.

Knowing the type of fuel saving technologies your car has, would help you in making proper choices when considering buying a car, or even plan how you manage fuel use.



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Joseph
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