AUDI
The brand with the four-rings unveil their new 2.0-litre, four-cylinder, TFSI petrol engine, at the 36th Vienna Motor Symposium, and this new engine will début in the new Audi A4.
The German car manufacturers are relentlessly pursing to develop a perfect balance between performance and economy across their engine range. The latest evidence of this is the launch of the new TFSI engine, which the company claims to be the most efficient petrol-powered engine in its class. The breakthrough of the 2.0-litre, TFSI engine lies in the adoption of a new combustion method, which in turn produces 190 PS and 320 Nm of torque. According to the company, this new engine also outruns its predecessors and direct competitors in terms of fuel-efficiency.
Dr. Stefan Knirsch, Head of Engine Development at Audi, sums up the benefits of the new engine: “Thanks to this right-sizing approach, the new engine enjoys the consumption benefits of a downsizing engine in partial load operation, while at higher loads it has the advantages of a large-displacement engine. The result is optimal efficiency and performance characteristics across the entire engine speed range.”
Apart from the new 2.0-litre TFSI engine, the Volkswagen Group also launched the new 6.0-litre, W12 TSI engine, which claims to produce 608 PS, and a new EU6-compliant TDI engine, which will be used for light-duty vehicles. The new W12 6.0 TSI engine is expected to find its way under the bonnet of everything from the Audi A8 to the Bentley Bentayga.
Speaking at the Vienna Motor Symposium, Dr. Heinz-Jakob Neußer, Volkswagen Group Head of Powertrain Development, said “That the industry had changed more rapidly and more extensively in the last few years than in the preceding decades. However, environmentally-friendly mobility remains the key topic for the automotive industry. Climate protection is an integral part of our responsibility towards people and society. Moreover, customers demand models with reduced consumption and lower emissions and politics also makes high demands on the automotive industry.
“The wide range of power-trains within the Volkswagen Group – ranging from petrol and diesel engines to natural gas vehicles, plug-in hybrids, purely electric cars and potentially even fuel cell cars – shows the Group’s enormous innovative strength. The Management Board Member in charge of development emphasised that: “The optimisation of the internal combustion engine is still an important field of innovation. High-efficiency TDI and TSI/TFSI engines – ideally in combination with DSG – will remain indispensable for the foreseeable future. The reduction of CO2 emissions from internal combustion engines is pure high-tech nowadays. Examples of this are our high RPM diesel, as well as the high-performance three-cylinder TSI engine.”
Story: Ryan Lee
