Japanese automaker Toyota motors which has won accolades as largest automaker in the world as per sales during 2013 defeating General Motors and Volkswagen group by a large margin is developing fuel efficient petrol engines for its cars. Toyota’s engineering team always strives for perfection in every aspect of their products and their automotive component divisions also maintains the same level of perfection therefore is making a new range of petrol engines which will be 10 percent more fuel efficient than their existing range. These engines will be designed entirely by Toyota’s in-house research and development team and will comprise of both 1.3 liter and 1 liter capacities with varied cylinder combinations.

Toyota will not use turbochargers on these engines and will most likely pair them up with electric hybrid engines to increase torque and power. These engines will help leverage Toyota’s technology and combustion power of its hybrid engines across the world. A few of Toyota’s cars are scheduled for redesign in forthcoming years and these engines are likely to be used in these models to examine their actual versatility. These petrol engines will also be used in hybrid cars with 14 new combinations and will be introduced globally by Toyota during 2015-16 to meet demands of clean technology. Toyota is the world leader when comes to introduction of latest hybrid technology into automobiles and has been continuously improving its products.

Therefore these latest petrol engines will also use Atkinson cycle which will reduce heat generation and improve compression of energy which will further enable superior efficiency of thermal energy. To improve fuel efficiency and power of its engines Toyota has improvised the intake port with a new shape to generate strong flow and recirculation. This new innovative shape of intake port enables powerful tumble flow and better EGR system which when paired with variable valve timing electric technique will improve combustion by a significant margin and also reduce losses. Toyota’s technology when combined with start/stop mechanism of petrol cars will increase efficiency and performance by nearly 15 percent. Toyota has an award winning range of engines in diesel, petrol and hybrid fuel options to satisfy varied needs of customers all over the world.

Toyota’s engines with VVT-i technique for petrol fuel, followed by common rail turbo (D-4D) for diesel fuel and its unique Toyota Hybrid System are all recognized for superiority in technology and performance by other carmakers and buyers. For Toyota’s management safety has always been top priority therefore its engines are tested put through vigorous crash tests using computerized simulations and other real time tests. Since early years Toyota has focused on petrol based engines followed by hybrid engines in combination with electric motors to make cars which are popular and not to expensive either. Rival automobile manufactures like Honda, Ford, Volkswagen, Fiat etc., have followed a different strategy from Toyota and concentrated on making small engines with turbochargers. However Toyota is focusing on using technology to improve combustion energy of petrol and diesel driven engines so that they use every drop of fuel to the fullest. The recently developed engine will improve thermal efficiency by 37 – 40 percent from existing level of 35 percent.

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