The fuel efficiency of Ford’s EcoBoost engine likely to increase

Working on different technologies Ford engineers have gained an increase of 6% in fuel efficiency of its award-winning, three-cylinder EcoBoost engine.

A lot of things at Ford had changed after the launch of its EcoBoost engine a few years ago. When the three-cylinder, one-litre engine was claimed to produce 125PS of power with a fuel efficiency of over 19km/l (in India), the engine was widely accepted as one of the best things Ford had  ever done.

Now to encash the reputation the engine has gained with time, Ford engineers are now opting for a new approach to make the engine more fuel efficient than before. Using a working prototype, Ford engineers have gained 6% increase in the fuel efficiency of the existing EcoBoost engine. This technology known as ‘cylinder deactivation’ allows the engineers to deactivate one cylinder, and also a rolling cylinder deactivation to make the engine run in ‘half-engine’ mode.

This prototype of the EcoBoost engine was fitted with a newly developed system that combined a dual mass flywheel, a pendulum absorber, and a tuned clutch disc. By increasing the operating range of the ‘cylinder deactivation’, this system helps counteracting any effect that the cylinder deactivation has on levels of noise, vibration and harshness.

Talking about the engine, the EcoBoost engine is the first engine ever to be given the title of ‘International Engine of the Year’ three times in a row. The smaller-capacity engine provides a perfect blend of power and fuel-efficiency, the direct fuel injection provides a quick response to the gas pedal, and other features like turbocharging and variable valve timing make it an engine worthy of every praise it has gathered over the time.