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...muffled thunder of outgoing artillery fire could be heard in Saigon up to the end-and after, as the fighting stubbornly rattled on. Yet, when the moment arrived at 8 a.m. last Sunday, the sound of sirens and church bells took over the teeming streets. Policemen whistled motorists and Honda drivers to a stop to observe a minute of silence for the 183,500 South Vietnamese troops who had died in battle since their country was created in the last Viet Nam settlement at Geneva 19 years...
Japan's Honda Motor Co., the mighty mite of motorcycles, leaped into the lead of the auto industry's clean-air derby last week. The firm's new low-pollution auto engine became the first ever to pass all the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's emission control criteria for 1975, standards that the Detroit leviathans have tirelessly argued could not be met in time. Honda immediately informed the EPA that it is breaking ranks with most other car producers and would no longer seek a one-year postponement of the 1975 requirements. Company officials say that...
Detroit automakers, skeptical that such an engine can develop enough power to drive large U.S. cars, are generally unconvinced that the Japanese advance solves their pollution-control problems. They doubt that the engine will meet the EPA's extremely tough standards for 1976, especially those for nitrogen oxide (Honda engineers insist their machine will easily do it). In tests held in Michigan, Honda's four-cylinder engines, using no catalysts, afterburners or other extra emission-reducing devices, posted pollution counts well below EPA ceilings even after running for 50,000 miles. Here, in grams of emission per mile...
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...present, conventional engines must use rich fuel mixtures-with a relatively high ratio of gasoline to oxygen -that produce unsatisfactory levels of pollutant gases. In addition, the rapid cooling of the gas temperature in the cylinder leaves unburned fuel, which is also spewed out as a pollutant. Honda's power plant, ponderously called the "compound vortex controlled combustion engine," or CVCC, scrubs these problems by being built to operate on a much thinner fuel mixture, using a lower ratio of gas to oxygen. Moreover, the cooling process in the cylinder is slowed to assist combustion of the fuel...