The Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks is investing more than ever in the internal combustion engine, says technical director.
The internal combustion engine is not dead. In fact, the Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks is investing more than ever in technology.
This is what the brand's technical director Lars Stenqvist tells Dagens Industri . The salvation for Volvo Trucks can be hydrogen.
– When we started talking about hydrogen in the internal combustion engine four years ago, I called it a joker in the game because of a lot of technical challenges.
– Today we are much more confident in saying that this will become a commercial product. Brint has gone from being a joker to a card in the game, says the technical director.
Volvo also sees greater perspectives in burning hydrogen in internal combustion engines rather than letting fuel cells convert hydrogen into electricity.
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Volvo's newest trucks will use something the company calls High Pressure Direct Injection. It is a fuel system that injects a little ignition fuel to enable compression, because the hydrogen is added.
According to Volvo Trucks, the technology provides higher performance than diesel combined with lower fuel consumption. However, the hydrogen trucks' total range must be approximately the same as that of diesel trucks today.
The Swedes are not alone in exploring the possibilities of hydrogen. Toyota, for example, is working on both getting passenger cars to capture CO2 in filters and getting their internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen.
A new collaboration with Toyota also means that BMW believes it is ready to mass-produce a hydrogen-powered passenger car as early as 2028. Read more about it here .
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