Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2012
Volvo Car Corporation will rely on a powertrain strategy based on its new downsized 4-cylinder VEA (Volvo Environmental Architecture) engine platform ( earlier post ) and hybrids for the US market, said John Maloney, recently appointed President of Volvo Cars, US, in an interview at the Detroit Auto Show. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 11, 2014
The engine, wholly developed in Sweden, will join the company’s 4-cylinder Drive-E engines ( earlier post ). The move to include a 3-cylinder in Volvo’s engine program is a natural next step in its downsizing strategy, the company said. Volvo Car’s 3-cylinder gasoline engine. Click to enlarge. Volvo Cars’ new three-cylinder engine.
Green Car Congress
MAY 28, 2010
The 12-meter Volvo 7700 Hybrid bus is now being built in the company’s plant in Wroclaw, Poland and the chassis for the double-decker Volvo B5L Hybrid will be built in Borås, Sweden. Volvo’s hybrid buses have a downsized diesel engine and an electric motor that can operate the bus independently or jointly.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 23, 2011
At this time in spring in Sweden, temperatures are still well below zero, with icy road conditions throughout the day. n average overall driveline efficiency allows downsizing of battery capacity in the vehicle. The Hybricon project will use an e-Traction system equipped with TheWheel SM500/3 motors.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 1, 2009
The pneumatic hybrid engine, which follows the downsizing and supercharging paradigm, offers a fuel-saving potential that is almost equal to that of hybrid electric powertrains while inducing much lower additional mass and cost penalties, according to the ETH Zürich researchers. The compressed air supply also allows extreme downsizing.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 18, 2010
The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. European automakers are striving to comply with EU CO 2 norms (average fleet emissions less than 130 g/km by 2015) to avoid penalties. (As
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
Researchers in an unrelated study of direct injection natural gasoline engines (dual-fuel combustion in CI-engines using RCCI as well as conventional duel-fuel combustion) at Chalmers University (Sweden) noted that methane’s very high octane number allows the use of high compression ratios in spark ignition engines.
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