Washington, September 26 : A Temple University researcher has come up with a simple device that can help improve automobiles’ fuel efficiency by 20 per cent.
Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple''s Physics Department, has revealed that the small device harnesses a power supply from a vehicle’s battery to create an electric field that thins fuel, so that smaller droplets are injected into the engine.
He says that the process, in turn, leads to more efficient and cleaner combustion than a standard fuel injector.
The researcher says that six months of road testing in a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz automobile has shown that the device can increase highway fuel from 32mpg to