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It's a technology that's been a sort of Holy Grail in the auto industry for at least a couple of decades.

Now Mazda, one of the smallest global automakers, plans to introduce it in a radical new engine to be used in a future Mazda vehicle in 2019.

It's called homogeneous charge compression ignition, or HCCI: in essence it lets a gasoline engine behave like a diesel under low-power demand, vastly improving its efficiency.
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2019 Mazda 3 to feature world-first HCCI engine for efficiency: report

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