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Byline: BOB GRITZINGER

Most gasoline-electric hybrids achieve a large portion of their fuel-economy gains by shutting down the gas engine in stop/start city driving. Some need to restart the gas engine to provide drive power, while others get by on electric-motor locomotion alone.

Either way, the systems typically rely on a fast-reacting electric motor to bring the car back to life from a stop. Mazda, however, is developing what it calls the Smart Idle Stop System (SISS), which employs no electric motors for restart. Instead, when the engine stops, Mazda uses the alternator to "brake'' one cylinder at a ...

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