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A technical seminar organized by Jaguar Land Rover specialists allowed journalists to study the latest diesel engines of the Ingenium family, as well as learn about the prospects for these power units in connection with the tightening of environmental requirements
Classes began with a presentation of General information about engines, their design and characteristics. The Ingenium transmission series is produced in the English city of Wolverhampton in 2014, about 500 thousand units per year. It took five years to develop a new engine family, we used 3D design. The engines raced worth at 7,200 hours, and the car’s road tests went for a total of 2 million miles. In the production of blocks, automated quality control is used with an accuracy of 3 microns (0.003 mm).
Today, various models of two British brands – Jaguar and Land Rover and are equipped with a 4-cylinder 2-liter turbo engine of the Ingenium family in two versions: 150, 180 and 240 hp. s., The first two are equipped with one turbocharger, while the most powerful of the two, one of which is with variable geometry. In a year or two, they promise the appearance of in-line diesel “sixes".
The engine is almost entirely aluminum, with a timing chain and two balancer shafts. Looking at their performance, and affect the technological progress, because the world’s first compression ignition engine, developed by Rudolf Diesel, a single cylinder, which was developed 20 hp. with…. and weighed 5 tons!
After the theoretical part, where the organizers showed the design of the power unit in the diagrams, it’s time for practice. For "natural" treatments, there is a special shop where trained personnel for the repair of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles service. The current power supply is a real work of art, and here you can see first-hand that it is impossible to maintain it without the appropriate education. In addition, specialists from official care centers have been trained for more than a day or two.
However, recent events have seriously shaken the global auto industry, such a negative impact on diesel engines that many are talking about their imminent demise. It’s about the notorious "disilicate" when many automakers caught cheating. They understate the actual emissions of harmful substances that have been heavily fined. As a result, some companies even announced the cessation of production of diesel power units. Some, but not Jaguar Land Rover. The British, on the contrary, continue to develop in this direction.
The fact that now the Ingenium turbo-diesel family meets the most stringent environmental standards, not only current, but also future ones. For this job, and the EGR system and the particulate filter, and the urea tank, and much more. It’s amazing what other automakers are all using, but the emissions in the most hazardous urban environments on the Ingenium engines fall short.
As it turned out during the seminar, everything is both simple and complex. It’s like when cooking, when from the same ingredients, some dishes turn out delicious, while others do not. It turns out that diesel engines are too early to write off British engineers have proven this.