Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Volvo 2011: here comes the new D5 diesel engine

The new engine Volvo five-cylinder D5 turbodiesel will be present on the Volvo V70, XC70 and S80. The new engine is changed from an output of 205 hp to 215 hp, while the couple arrives and adds 20 Nm to 440 Nm As for fuel consumption and emissions of CO2, we can say that the first decrease of 8% In fact we are about 4.9 l/100km, while the latter stood at 129 g / km.

These improvements were achieved through a number of small measures which mainly concern the reduction of friction. E 'was used a sequential twin turbo, injectors, glow plugs and piezoelectric ceramics. The Volvo V70 with D5 engine will consume only 5.1 l/100 km and CO2 emissions will stop at 134 g / km, with manual transmission, while the automatic gearbox version we are about 6.2 l/100 km and 164 g / km.

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