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Europe's Answer to Hybrids: Audi Q7 TDI Video

Audi was one of the first manufacturers to dive into the hybrid pond, but these days it is much more interested in proselytizing about the benefits of Turbo Direct Injection diesels. Audi says TDI, which its engineers invented, is the cleanest, most efficient diesel in the world, and the company recently put its money where its mouth is by sending 180 members of the media along with a handful of Audi representatives to travel nearly 5,000 miles throughout the U.S. to demonstrate its real-world fuel economy. Of the four models that hit American highways -- A3, A4 sedan, Q5 crossover and the Audi Q7 -- it is the Q7 that will first carry the banner of clean-diesel TDI into Audi's U.S. showrooms. By the time the demonstration ended the Q7 TDI had...
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New Nissan Catalytic Converter Trims Exotic Metals Use by Half

For over a quarter century, catalytic converters have remained one of the most effective yet costliest ways to trim vehicle tailpipe emissions. Next week, Nissan will introduce a new variation on the theme that dramatically reduces the amount of the pricey metals like rhodium and platinum required to make them work when it rolls out the latest version of its Cube in the Japanese market. Currently, automakers are using about half of the world's rhodium and up to 80 percent of its platinum reserves as active scrubber elements that coat the substrates in conventional converters. Developed as part of its alliance with Renault, this new variation is both far less expensive to produce and far more efficient when it comes to reducing oxides of nitrogen...
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