These are the new engines and techniques of Jaguar

Posted on 10-07-2014 at 18:07 by JordyS – 16 Comments”

Jaguar has the coming years the necessary innovations in store for us. The British come not only with new engines, but also our windshield forever change.

Ingenium engines
The manufacturer wants in the coming years, faster and easier to play on the trends and environmental requirements of that time. That’s why they have a lighter, more compact and environmentally-friendly series of four-cylinder engines developed: the Ingenium family. The main innovation is therefore not the reduction in weight of 80 kilograms, but the modular construction.

The Ingenium-blocks have, for example, all have the same bore, stroke, cilinderafstand and engine capacity (500cc). This ensures Jaguar that the benzineversies much in common with the dieselblokken and make it easier to use different kinds of motors can be made.

Virtual Windscreen
We all do it sometimes: Whatsappen or surfing the internet on our phone. Jaguar hopes with a virtual windshield (see video on Autojunk) to avoid that we too often get distracted. So, the British will be important data as your speed, navigation information, or a warning of approaching danger on the glass project, so that you only have for you have to look. Jaguar Land Rover experiment was already with all sorts of augmented reality techniques and paste, even though in one of his concepts.

The Virtual Windscreen can also be used during driver training or in racing. So you can the virtual racelijnen and rempunten of a track, your lap times show or even race against a ‘ghost car’. That will be the virtual racers among us, familiar from games like Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport.

Hand gestures
Jaguar also wishes that the cars of the brand in the future can operate with hand gestures. Then we have the course, not on a horn that responds to a raised middle finger, but day. Jaguar argues that it is safer, if you don’t have to look for all kinds of buttons, for example, to a different radio station to choose.

That would be in the future, for example, must be able to with a simple swipe, because Jaguar already has a technique that such movements can accurately register, called E-Field Sensing. For comparison: your smartphone can adjust from 5 millimeters to measure what your hand is doing while the system of the Jaguar from 15 inches can.