MIT's plasmatron cuts diesel bus emissions, promises better gas engine ...( d in vehicles - by 2010 Smaling said....)

d in vehicles - by 2010," Smaling said. ArvinMeritor is working with a vehicle concept specialist company to build a proof-of-concept vehicle that incorporates the plasmatron in an internal combustion engine. "We'd like to have a driving vehicle in one and a half years to demonstrate the benefits," Smaling said.

In the meantime, the team continues to improve the base technology. At the DEER meeting, Bromberg, for example, reported cutting the plasmatron's consumption of electric power "by a factor of two to three."

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Contact: Elizabeth Thomson
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
21-Oct-2003

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