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Article: Local firm looks to help build a better engine: reaction design joins with automakers, other companies to form model fuel consortium.(Energy)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- October 24, 2005
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Faced with consumers in search of better gas mileage at a more affordable price and increasingly stricter emission standards, automobile manufacturers and engine designers have the daunting task of figuring out how to create more fuel-efficient vehicles without breaking the company bank.
To address that problem, seven companies have teamed with Sorrento Valley-based Reaction Design to become charter members of a Model Fuel Consortium unveiled Oct. 17. The group includes ChevronTexaco, Dow Chemical Co., L'Institut Francais du Petrole, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, PSA Peugeot Citroen and Toyota.
The companies, which specialize in everything from building ...