Volvo confirms arrival new three-cylinder

Posted on 23-08-2014 at 16:18 by MrBrown – 46 Comments”

CO2 is king, so also the guys from Volvo having more cylinders of their engines in the race to lower emissions. Around 2016 there will be of the for the brand typical five cylinders, only three are left. The advent of a three-cylinder is now by Volvo confirmed.

DRIVE-E
Last year’s Volvo under the name DRIVE-E is a whole mountain of new viercilinders. Until 2016 the brand with variations on that VEA-engines, then the less potent viercilinders phased out, and the range of under supplemented with the engines from the new three-cylinder family.

An average of 95 g/km
According to Dekar, Crabb, motorenbaas at Volvo, put the brand this step to meet the future emissions targets. Where the average emissions from Volvo in Europe now 120 g/km is, wants to be in 2020, an average of just 95 g/km emissions. For the Australian market is the goal even at 75 g/km.

Petrol, diesel and hybrid
There are initially only petrol variants of the three-cylinder turboblok, at a later period there oliestokende driepitters added to the range. Also would the block in combination with electric motors an appropriate hybrid powertrain forms. How many variants there exactly want to come Crabb not to say, however, we do know that this is less than the four-cylinder family there counts.

Not for the XC90
The S60, V60 and XC60 would be the largest models, which are the motorblokje under the hood. With a three-cylinder is the car’s CO2 emissions of about 95 g/km to be achieved. According to Volvo it is in terms of torque for the XC90 is unfortunately not yet attainable in a three-cylinder to mount.

Postponement of electrification
The brand tries with the driecilinders the further electrification of its range of models for as long as possible. The three-cylinder should be at least until 2025 endure, only then think Volvo that the commercial interest is largely on electricity. (via autocar.co.uk)