British car maker Jaguar Land Rover has revealed a new range of Ingenium petrol engines. The new engines are now in production at Jaguar Land Rover’s £1 billion Engine Manufacturing Centre at Wolverhampton.
These new engines are the most advanced the company has ever produced. JLR says that the new motors will deliver up to 25 percent more power than the engines they replace and offer fuel consumption reductions of up to 15 percent. The Ingenium petrol engine features state-of-the-art technologies, such as an electrohydraulic valvetrain, integrated exhaust manifold and twin scroll turbocharger with ceramic ball bearing technology. Thanks to the usage of common architecture based on a 500cc displacement, theses new engines can be used in saloons as well as the luxury SUVs.
Nick Rogers, Executive Director – Product Engineering, said: “Ingenium has been developed as a modular family of powerful, efficient and refined all-aluminum petrol and diesel engines. All Ingenium engines deliver benchmark low levels of friction, contributing to inherently good efficiency and refinement.”
The Ingenium petrol engines will be introduced in vehicles in the year 2017.
Jaguar Land Rover is also investing £30 million in a research project called Transcend. A part of this project, the compay has developed a revolutionary advanced automatic transmission that will both improve the efficiency of future vehicles and expand their all-wheel drive capability. Transcend uses an innovative ultra-wide ratio spread (20) that integrates low-range gear box, dual-clutch and hybrid technologies to deliver new levels of off-road performance and fuel economy improvements of nearly 10 percent.
The Transcend project aims to deliver a compact, lightweight eight-speed transmission with an ultra-wide ratio spread of 20, more than double that of a conventional eight-speed automatics. Weighing around 20kg less than existing eight-speed automatics, TRANSCEND could be used in longitudinal rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive vehicles.
Nick Rogers said: “TRANSCEND demonstrates Jaguar Land Rover’s commitment to original research that improves the driving experience and the environmental performance of our vehicles. It will make manoeuvring and off-road use easier than ever before for drivers whilst also improving on-road vehicle dynamics and CO2 emissions.”
