Carsales Staff•9 Apr 2013
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V8s are dinosaurs now, Volvo claims
New VEA engine family set to make traditional large displacement engines redundantVolvo has formally announced its new VEA (Volvo Engine Architecture) family of powerplants will come to market from around the third quarter of this year.
And when the new engines arrive in global markets they'll bring what Volvo refers to as 'world-first i-ART technology', which the company claims will reduce fuel consumption during the diesel combustion process. The system hinges on pressure feedback from each injector monitored continuously for optimal fuel delivery.
"Increasing the rail pressure to an exceptionally high 2500 Bar, while adding the i-ART technology, can be described as the second step in the diesel revolution. It is a breakthrough comparable to when we invented the groundbreaking lambda sensor for the catalytic converter in 1976. It's another world-first for Volvo," a press release issued by the company quoted Derek Crabb as saying.
"Each injector has a small computer on top, which monitors injection pressure. Using this information, the self-adapting i-ART system makes sure that the ideal amount of fuel is injected during each combustion cycle," added Crabb, Volvo's Vice President Powertrain Engineering.
The VEA family will also consist of petrol engines as well as diesels, and Volvo plans for the new units to drive through an eight-speed automatic transmission to enhance the on-paper fuel economy. Forced induction – by turbocharging – will provide respectable driveability or fuel economy gains, according to the tuning for each application. Volvo is keeping its cards close to the chest, but the press release also mentions 'electrification' to boost performance, along the lines motoring.com.au has already sampled in the company's V60 Plug-in Hybrid.
"The new powertrains will boost driving pleasure through their agile, yet smooth, responsiveness and the seamless character of the new eight-speed automatic," says Crabb.
"We will create smaller, more intelligent engines with so much power that they will turn V8s into dinosaurs. Our four-cylinder engines will offer higher performance than today's six-cylinder units and lower fuel consumption than the current four-cylinder generation. On top of that, electrification will bring us up into power figures in today's V8 territory."
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