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Air supply unit d skyactiv x, bisa jadi electrick supercharge powered by i-eloop?Available in the Mazda 6 sedan, i-Eloop recovers heat energy from braking, turning into electricity stored in a supercapacitor that sends power to the car's various accessories. As we've noted before, it's possible for this supercapacitor to power a supercharger instead of, say, the air/conditioning
so good news.. its won't sound like a diesel...I was expecting the engine’s performance to be a bit rough around the edges. After all, there’s a reason we don’t have gasoline cars on the road today with homogenous charge compression ignition engines. That reason being that it’s incredibly difficult to control exactly when ignition occurs (so as to maximize engine power and avoid misfires that could cause poor NVH or even engine damage).
But Mazda’s SPCCI system uses a spark plug to precisely control compression ignition, so perhaps SKYACTIV-X could avoid the pitfalls I’d been hearing about gasoline compression engines? Even so, how smoothly could Mazda transition from spark ignition needed at high engine speeds to compression ignition under normal driving?
All of these thoughts went through my head before I actually got behind the wheel. But once I started driving, I was amazed by just how normal the car felt. Whether I tipped deep into the throttle, or drove steadily on the highway, the car responded quickly to my inputs with a healthy surge of torque.
I piloted the car almost 100 mph on the highway, accelerated with the pedal mashed to the floor, cruised down city streets and country roads: never did the car do anything but obey the commands from my right foot.
And 99 percent of the time, the prototype sounded like a normal gas car (you can hear how it sounded in the clip below), with NVH characteristics that really weren’t too far below what I’d expect from a production vehicle.
