Industry Engine Issues
The Automotive industry is facing many challenges. The future will bring new diversity of fuels and with this change comes a proliferation of engine variants to cater for the new fuel options. Future fuels carry engineering challenges to manage the wide variety of ignition and combustion characteristics for each fuel in each region. Automotive companies will have to design and develop multiple engines to cope with these fuel variants. R&D costs will become a massive drain on engineering resources. Products will take longer to bring to market. Component parts will multiply leading to lower unit production volumes and higher costs.
End users also require better fuel economy and performance and while vehicles will improve, engines must become more efficient to keep pace with environmental requirements. Engine down-sizing and performance boosting technologies are now becoming more common and this trend is set to increase.
FlexDI enables engine manufacturers to develop one engine and handle different fuel types through simple changes to the fuel system. This opens up the potential for Gasoline, Alcohol, CNG and Hydrogen systems to be installed in the same base engine. Future fuels, future emissions and engine efficiency requirements can be delivered by FlexDI. Continuous improvement and development means FlexDI stays ahead of market needs for advanced combustion technology.
