Sustainability

We’re going to publish on Diesel International 4/2020 (available in August) a long overview about the SCR for European truck manufacturers (that’s still available on the Italian DIESEL May issue). It’s a way to understand what will happen in the engine room of the yachts. SCR will ...

Our long journey about fuel efficiency has finally come to an end. This is the last post taken from quite a long (although extremely interesting) article written by Serguei Tikhonenkov, MSc about a brand-new engine design aimed at boosting the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines. In this ...

Geotab, a company operating in the field of IoT, connected and electric vehicles (here’s a previous post about a solution to measure battery degradation), conducted a research with the aim of measuring the impact of electrification on CO2 emissions. According to this analysis, 8 percent of fossil fu...

Deutz for Petersberg Climate Dialogue Deutz for Petersberg. The Petersberg Climate Dialogue will take place this year under the unfortunate circumstances of the Covid-19. As stated on the event’s website, scheduled to take place in Berlin on April 27 and 28: «The coronavirus crisis is presenti...

BorgWarner’s EGR technology has already been available for Indian passenger car manufacturers, with EGR coolers and EGR tubes for 1.3-liter diesel engines, since 2008. Now the company is supplying newly developed components for a new 1.5-liter gasoline engine, designed to meet BS VI emission norms. ...

Step by step electrification is involving all the powertrain. BorgWarner eTurbo The American company, that recently enlarged our focus by the acquisition of Delphi, is developing new solutions to support electrification. Let’s read the BorgWarner eTurbo official. WUHAN DOESN’T MEAN JUST ...

Improving the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines is a key requirement for the future of this technology. This is the third part of a technical article written by Serguei Tikhonenkov, MSc.   Here you can find the first part, here’s the second part, published last week. At the end of ...

Volvo Group and Daimler will share a Green vision Volvo and Daimler are going into a cooperation to make dreams reality. A reality called hydrogen (here find out the Nikola-Iveco relationship). Although investments in ‘full electric’ are increasingly taking shape, the word ‘hydroge...

Most recent data available evaluating California’s Low Carbon Fuels Standard has demonstrated that diesel engines and equipment using advanced biofuels, including biodiesel and renewable diesel fuel, have delivered more greenhouse gas reduction benefits than vehicle electrification and even ethanol....

It’s pretty sure that fuel efficiency is one of the main factors that trigger the competitiveness of internal combustion engine also in the next years and decades. Hybridization and electrification are major challenges indeed for more traditional engines. Last week we started the publication of a te...