This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fueleconomy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. L/100km), if the vehicles were to meet this CO 2 level all through fueleconomy.
Two-thirds of owners surveyed said they expect their next vehicle to get better fuel mileage than the one they’re driving now, and fueleconomy topped the list as the most important consideration when shopping for their next car, followed by quality and safety.
Ford’s approach to the project was to engineer a comprehensive suite of gasoline engine systems technologies, including: Aggressive engine downsizing in a mid-sized sedan from a large V-6 to a small I-4. Integrated variable displacement oil pump / balance shaft module. Earlier post.). The approach. Compact RFF valvetrain w/ 12 mm HLA.
At a “Go Further with Ford” event in Amsterdam, Ford Motor Company detailed plans for an aggressive product acceleration in Europe, targeting opportunities for growth in the large car, SUV and commercial vehicle segments while emphasizing fueleconomy and enabling technologies such as the EcoBoost engines. liter EcoBoost engine.
Use of a variable compression ratio (VCR) could be one technology approach to reducing fuel consumption in highly boosted (e.g., downsized, turbocharged) gasoline engine, as operating an engine with higher compression ratios at low load can increase fueleconomy compared to operating an engine with fixed compression ratio.
While oil will remain the most widely used fuel, overall energy demand will be reshaped by a continued shift toward less-carbon-intensive energy source as well as steep improvements in energy efficiency in areas such as transportation, where the expanded use of advanced and hybrid vehicles will help push average new-car fueleconomy to 48 mpg (4.9
The sleeve valves have a short heat rejection path directly to lube oil. During the valve open event, all but the top few millimeters are drawn past a lip seal into oil. —Tony Willcox, Pinnacle Engines. Active sleeve cooling. Source: Pinnacle. Click to enlarge.
Ford views EcoBoost as a strategy as well as a product—one that will serve as a key element of Ford’s CO 2 and fueleconomy product strategy—said Dan Kapp, Director, Ford Powertrain Research and Advanced Engineering, during a briefing on the company’s fueleconomy strategies in Dearborn.
The piston’s raised gallery places the cooling oil as close to the piston bowl as possible to achieve maximum cooling. downsized diesel engines with improved fueleconomy and CO 2 emissions. Federal-Mogul's 2D ultrasonic inspection technique enables high performance pistons for diesel downsizing. internal friction.
The new turbocharged gasoline engine achieves a superior level of engine performance with maximum power output of 155kW (211ps) while improving fueleconomy with its downsized displacement. All grades of the next-generation Skyline turbo model achieve the 2015 fueleconomy standard, qualifying for tax breaks.
Hyundai expects the 2016 Sonata Hybrid to improve fueleconomy more than 10%. The 2016 Sonata Hybrid features a downsized 2.0-liter The transmission has been upgraded significantly since its introduction with the original Sonata Hybrid and now uses an electric oil pump, which helps improve efficiency.
A multi-cylinder version is practical for a wide variety of vehicles and offers greatest benefit to C and D class passenger cars which can take advantage of the low cost architecture and significantly improved fueleconomy and emissions. Fuel system. Wet sump with plain bearings and electric oil pump. Lubrication system.
Continuing to emphasize a downsizing approach, Volkswagen presented two new engines at the at the 30 th Vienna Engine Symposium (7-8 May): the 1.2-liter Both engines impressively show how Volkswagen reduces the CO 2 emissions and the fuel consumption and that to fungible costs. Click to enlarge. liter TSI gasoline engine and the 1.6-liter
These projects will receive more than $115 million in funding to develop and demonstrate systems-level fuel efficiency technologies by 2015, including improved aerodynamics, reducing engine idling technologies, waste heat recovery to increase engine efficiency, advanced combustion techniques, and powertrain hybridization. 38,831,115.
The relatively marginal use of these fuels is a function of the significant energy efficiency gains of electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles over conventional ICE-powered vehicles. Fuel efficiency improvements are relatively easily integrated into mass-market vehicles. —“Transportation Forecast: Global Fuel Consumption”.
The global energy supply became 6% cleaner from 1971 to 1990,in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s. While fueleconomy of engined-cars is the key technology pathway to decarbonizing the transport sector by 2020, the 2DS also envisages 20 million EVs on the road by 2020, with yearly sales reaching seven million vehicles.
Current fueleconomy policy clearly demonstrates this fact. —“The Case for Technology Neutral Public Policy in FuelEconomy Debate”. The quickest and most cost-effective way to achieve our energy usage goals is through faster adoption of fuel-efficient downsized gasoline and diesel engines.
The new venture, which will be called “Rotrak”, will add Torotrak’s variable speed traction drive to Rotrex’ supercharging technology to address the automotive industry’s need for affordable, effective engine downsizing technologies. As part of the agreement, Torotrak will acquire a 15% stake in Rotrex and a seat on the company’s board.
The engine should yield fuel efficiency gains of more than 50% compared to a downsized, turbo-charged gasoline direct injection engine, while reducing the overall cost of the powertrain system, said Fabien Redon, Vice President, Technology Development at Achates Power. Earlier post.) Fabien Redon.
The new generation XTRONIC CVT model achieves an improvement in fueleconomy of up to 10% compared to previous CVTs for comparable vehicles, based on in-house measurements using US (EPA) combined mode. This, plus the use of specially formulated low viscosity oil, has reduced friction. XTRONIC CVT. Click to enlarge.
The work of the consortium will be structured into a series of modules, the first of which will focus on the effect of downsized light duty gasoline and diesel engine technologies on lubricant soot levels and engine wear. Tags: Fuel Efficiency Lubricating Oils.
In part-load operation, the indirect injection supplements direct gasoline injection to improve fueleconomy and to reduce the output of particulates from the engine. GDI technology provides fuel efficiency benefits from charge air cooling, more facile turbocharging, and the downsizing that these permit. Earlier post.).
Per the regulations, the Mercedes team downsized their internal combustion engine (ICE) to a 1.6 Oil thins at higher temperatures; thus, a hotter engine needs a thicker oil to stop metal components from rubbing together and failing. This requires thinner, faster flowing oil. Again, this requires thinner oil.
” Bunker spent the bulk of his presentation describing the new medium- and heavy-duty fueleconomy and greenhouse gas regulations from EPA and the Department of Transportation. The future that we point to [is] very conventional-looking engines.” Earlier post.)
Fiat expects that Multiair, with direct control of the air through the intake engine valves without using the throttle, can help reduce fuel consumption by up to 10% for turbocharged or naturally aspirated gasoline engines. A specific turbocharged engine version will be bi-fuel (gasoline-CNG).
Fiesta—available in four- and five-door bodystyles—will offer North American buyers a new choice of 15 class-exclusive technologies and projected highway fueleconomy of 40 mpg, besting the Honda Fit, Nissan Versa and Toyota Yaris and Corolla. Our fueleconomy leader is now a PowerShift automatic. The Ford Fiesta’s 1.6-liter
Renault’s ongoing downsizing strategy is aimed at reducing the cubic capacity of its engines in order to bring down fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions, without detracting from performance. Reduced transmission friction thanks to the use of low viscosity oils. combined with fuel consumption of an engine of its size.
liter engine option has a targeted fueleconomy of 27 mpg city / 38 mpg highway / 31 mpg combined (8.7, For this next-generation design, 70% of the parts have been redesigned, which, along with a downsizedoil pump, lower oil level and low viscosity oil results in up to 40% reduction in internal friction (versus the previous design).
Duratec I-4 unit while contributing to projected fueleconomy gains of more than 10%. liter unit in Europe and a choice of advanced and improved Duratorq TDCi common-rail diesel engines—all of which offer reductions in fuel consumption of between 10 and 20% compared to the outgoing models. liter engine.
improvement in fueleconomy in operation over the Japanese 10-15 cycle. When downsizing, Kato said, using a turbocharger or supercharger to offset the decrease in output can result in a fall in the knocking limit as the boosting pressure rises, causing the thermal efficiency to fall as well. and back again. Kadota et al.
The all-new electronic limited slip differential, Ultra Posi is designed for front and rear-wheel drive vehicles, performs comparably to four-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive systems and provides up to a 10% savings in fueleconomy, Eaton says. The system comprises a deactivation rocker arm and oil control valve. V6 and 4.2L
Daihatsu will introduced the new technology in a fuel-efficient vehicle model due to be released in September this year. The company anticipates that it will be the only gasoline-powered vehicle delivering fueleconomy of 30 kilometers per liter (equivalent to 71 mpg US or 3.3 L/100km) in JC08 mode. Running resistance lowered.
A comparison of the benefits of two different cylinder deactivation operating strategies for downsized 3-cylinder engines such as the 1.0L That may be, but Ford is exploring ways to further improve the fuel efficiency of the three-cylinder design, including the possible use of cylinder deactivation. Schamel et al. Click to enlarge.
The presence of low-speed pre-ignition is considered a major impediment to automobile manufacturers’ efforts to aggressively downsize engines to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This four-year program expands on earlier efforts to improve gasoline engine technology for future emissions and fueleconomy requirements.
DeCicco’s analysis shows that optimizing internal combustion engines plus rising adoption of grid-free hybrids will enable new fleet fueleconomy (unadjusted) to reach 52 mpg (4.52 Adjusted on-road fueleconomy correspondingly would be 41 mpg (5.74 —A Fuel Efficiency Horizon for US Automobiles.
On 15 Sep, NHTSA and the US EPA proposed a joint rulemaking on fueleconomy and greenhouse gas emissions for light duty vehicles: an average new car 34.1 mpg if the automotive industry were to meet this CO 2 level just through fueleconomy improvements.) ( Earlier post.). mpg and 250 g CO 2 /km for model year 2016.
Natural gas and crude oil are strongly influenced by fuel consumption during the use phase. In total, through the production and use phases, substantial savings are achieved owing to the significantly reduced fuel consumption of the new C-Class. The new C-Class shows a slightly higher level in this respect than its predecessor.
All of the engines employ direct fuel injection and turbocharging. This downsizing concept coupled with energy recuperation and stop-start technologies from the Audi modular efficiency platform give them fuel consumption ranging from 3.8 liters of fuel per 100 km (46.1 mph) and offers fueleconomy of 3.8
liter engine, with high-efficiency combustion, cooled EGR and an optimized ITMS cooling system, features 187 horsepower at 6,100 rpm and 178 lb-ft (241 N·m) of torque at 4,000 rpm, with an EPA-estimated combined fueleconomy of 29 mpg with front-wheel drive and 26 mpg with all-wheel drive. The new Smartstream 2.5-liter
of torque at 4,000 rpm, with a targeted combined fueleconomy of 28 mpg with front-wheel drive. This automatic transmission adds ratio range at both the top and bottom of output speeds allowing for extra thrust off-the-line and a quieter, more fuel-efficient trip on the interstate. The new Smartstream 2.5-liter
Here, the G95’s rpm ensures that a propeller of optimal size can be employed, in turn delivering a low fuel-oil consumption for an optimal fueleconomy. Following this trend, as well as those for cost-down and downsizing, the S90ME-C has recently been supplemented with a G90ME-C10 version.
The other driver for SSV technology is consumer demand—present in Europe and some Asia Pacific countries for some time thanks to high fuel prices. This also offers opportunities for other engine efficiencies such as electric boost. —“ Start-Stop Vehicles ”.
To achieve these results, PureTech development called for a number of changes, chief among which were: Downsizing. The regulated, variable-capacity oil pump continually provides optimal lubrication pressure. Top speed is up 7 mph (11 km/h), and fueleconomy is also improved by up to 1.5 Three cylinders. l/100km (52.3
First introduced in the 2009 CC, the EA888 continued Volkswagen’s move toward smaller, turbocharged engines that offer the fueleconomy benefits of downsizing with the power of a larger-displacement unit. The Audi version of the EA888 Gen3B made its debut in the new A4. Reducing friction was another goal for this engine.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
338 
Let's personalize your content