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Old 05-25-2018, 03:09 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Pre-Heating the cat?!

I saw this article today...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05...id-sports-car/

And it says...

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While I'm in awe of all of the teams' accomplishments, EcoCAR 3 is a competition, and that means there has to be a winner. As mentioned up top, yet again that was The Ohio State, which scored 895 points out of a maximum of 1,000. Among its achievements was a hybrid with 20-percent greater fuel efficiency than the rest, in part thanks to an electrically heated catalyst that dropped emissions upon startup by 85 percent.
Not sure what that would do for the rest of us who are looking at our bottom line MPG, but curious if anybody has looked into anything like this.

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