Toyota Gasoline Engine Achieves Thermal Efficiency Of 38 %
Researchers take laser-based velocity measurements at the Sandia National Laboratory’s Combustion Investigation Facility. By comparison, the V8 engines pre-2014 achieved thermal efficiency of 29 % and the 1st iteration of the Mercedes V6 turbo in 2014 managed 40 percent thermal efficiency. Toyota has now developed a new gasoline engine which it claims has a maximum thermal efficiency of 38 %-higher than any other mass-made combustion engine. Meanwhile, following 2015, the technology has sophisticated the efficiency of engines to 47% and producing historic highs of power – and all with an ICE restricted to consuming fuel at a rate of just 100kg/hr, meaning that 50 % of the potential power than can be derived from a unit of petrol is becoming converted.
Even though the heat exchangers on a racing automobile are particularly effective, their potential to cool the engine is a function of the ‘air-side capacity’. By 2020, further increase …
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