Toyota is experimenting with krukasloze verbandingsmotor

Posted on 02-05-2014 at 18:19 by JordyS – 47 Comments”

Electric cars can still be difficult without the range extender. Toyota is experimenting plenty, and sees a future in an internal combustion engine without crankshaft.

It is and remains poor: an additional engine that should prevent you i3 just comes to a halt. The researchers of the Toyota members here apparently, because they hope that their Free Piston Engine Linear Generator (FPEG) a small internal combustion engine. That should definitely be in small cars, valuable space savings.

The Japanese love the seemingly simple. They remove the crankshaft and have enough to make a piston that moves up and down due to the combustion and compressed air. Under the piston there is a magnet back and forth through a coil and generates electricity. The system is not intended to allow the car to drift, but ensures that the batteries are recharged.

Toyota seems to be well advanced with the development of FPEG, but it will still take some time before we get the system back on the road. The trial version of the system provides 13 horsepower per cylinder and would be in a boxer-configuration, generate enough electricity for a Toyota Yaris constant 120 km / h load drive.