Toyota has announced that it will soon release a new generation of gasoline engines that will be at least 10 percent more fuel efficient than today’s engines.
Toyota has announced that it will soon release a new generation of gasoline engines that will be at least 10 percent more fuel efficient than today’s engines. The new engines leverage combustion and loss-reduction technologies from Toyota’s hybrid engines.
Two engines will form the base of the new series. The first is a 1.3-liter gasoline engine that uses the Atkinson cycle to achieve a maximum thermal efficiency of 38 percent — top-level among mass-produced engines. The second is a 1.0-liter gasoline engine, jointly developed with Daihatsu, that has achieved maximum thermal efficiency of 37 percent.
The new engines will be used in Toyota’s future lineup scheduled for partial redesign in the near future, and a total of 14 engine variations will be introduced globally by 2015.
Source: Toyota
