This Smart Car by utilizes Bio Diesel and runs on 100% vegetable oil recycled from some of the finest restaurants!

TheSmart ForTwo cdi is a three-cylinder common-rail injection diesel engine.

Thefirst shipment of Smart cdi cars to North America arrived in Halifax, Canada onSept. 24, 2004, and the Smart cars became available for sale in Canada in Octof 2004.

CanadianSmart Cars had an aluminum three-cylinder rear-engine 800cc motor thatdeveloped 40hp. This turbo-diesel power plant was the only engine offered forthe Canadian Smart market and pasted all emission and safety requirementsimposed by Transport and Environment of Canada.

TheSmart ForTwo cdi is the world's smallest CDI diesel. It develops a mere 40hp,thus making the Smart CDI have a fuel consumption of 70 miles per gallon. Thesame technology of the Smart cdi engine is used in the Mercedes-Benz E320diesel engine.

Itsstate-of-the art common rail diesel cdi technology had lent itself to therequirements of Canadian drivers looking for unpolluted energy, implementationand financial prudence.

TheSmart CDI CO2 emissions are some of the best available and Smart of Canada saidthe engine "is simply more efficient than gas-powered versions."

In 2007 the horsepower of their Common-rail Diesel Injection engine (cdi) wasincreased by ten percent, to 45 horsepower.

However,the Smart Common-rail Diesel Injection version will not be available for salein the United States nor Canada.

With a Smart cdi that gets 70 plus miles per gallon verses the Smart gas model thatgets 40 mpg, many folks are asking why?

Below is the latest from Daimler.

Atpresent there is no more economical way of running a car: Italian car magazineconfirms the low consumption of the smart fortwo cdi.

Ona long journey of 1,000 km the Italian car magazine “Quattroruote” measured thefuel consumption of the smart fortwo cdi and confirmed the standard consumptionof 3.3 litres per 100 kilometres.

Thecurrent December issue of the magazine carries a report of the test drive. Thesmart travelled 1,000 kilometres from Rome to Salzburgon a single tank of fuelto see whether the stated standard consumption of just 3.3 litres per 100kilometres could really be achieved.

Theroute chosen largely consisted of motorways, but there were also detours andtraffic jams because of roadworks, long uphill stretches and city traffic inRome, Bolzano and Salzburg.

Theresult: the smart fortwo cdi travelled the 1,000 km on a single tank of fuel.This corresponds to average consumption of just 3.3 litres per 100 kilometresi.e. the standard consumption. According to “Quattroruote” this makes the smartfortwo cdi the vehicle with the lowest average consumption that the magazinehas ever tested in the history of its road tests.

Withstandard consumption of just 3.3 litres per 100 kilometres and CO2 emissions ofjust 88 grams per kilometre the smart fortwo cdi is the production vehicle withthe lowest consumption and the lowest carbon dioxide emissions. For customersthis means that at present there is no more economical and climate-friendly carthan the smart fortwo cdi.

Source:Daimler