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Re:Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoli... by BoorishBears on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:01PM (#16299273)
>Many governments have announced that by 2040 it'll be illegal to sell cars with such engines.

Many governments?

Mazda is a small company, they can't afford larger scale innovation and buying up battery factories so they're making due. ICEs are going to be around for a lot longer than the next two decades, and I'm highly doubtful they won't be dominating in 5 decades, let alone 2.

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Re:Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoli... by JetSpiegel on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:35PM (#16299488)
> Mazda is a small company

Citation needed. 50k employees and 3e12 yen (20 billion dollars) in revenue in 2016.

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Re:Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoli... by BoorishBears on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:53PM (#16299581)
The context is car companies.

Mazda: <9B$ Market Cap and 50k employees

Ford: 40B Market Cap and 200k employees

Volkswagen: 100B Market Cap And 600k employees

Tesla is already at 30k employees...

It’s very well known that on the scale of international car brands Mazda is a “small” company

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Re:Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoli... by craftyguy on Saturday February 03, 2018 @04:10PM (#16299665)
Mazda in owned by Ford.. sooo....
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Re:Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoli... by BoorishBears on Saturday February 03, 2018 @04:15PM (#16299696)
Ford owns a stake in Mazda...

...so what?

Mazda is still very small on the scale of international car brands. The other comment mentions Toyota as well, there are several companies with orders of magnitude more revenue and employees in the field with Mazda.

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Re:Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoli... by huntie on Saturday February 03, 2018 @06:23PM (#16300295)
Ford sold their stake in Mazda years ago, and lost a controlling stake in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda#Partnership_with_Ford_Mo...

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Re:Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoli... by Grazester on Saturday February 03, 2018 @05:25PM (#16300037)
Mazda is small in comparison to its Japanese counterparts(Nissan, Honda and Toyota).
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Re:Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoli... by calpaterson on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:54PM (#16299589)
Toyota has 8 times more revenue, nearly 8 times more employees.
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