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The new Drive-E petrol engine

The Volvo V40 D4 with Drive-E powertrain

Volvo Car Group’s new Drive-E powertrains are now also available for the Volvo V40 and V40 Cross Country. The CO2 emissions of the 190 hp Volvo V40 D4 with manual gearbox are about 85 g/km. “The Volvo V40 D4 offers a massive 80 hp more driving pleasure than other cars in the segment with CO2 emissions at […]

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Single seater car in ACE wind tunnel

ACE wind tunnel technical specification

ACE (Aero Concept Engineering) is a French company based in Magny-Cours and which provides a complete aerodynamic consultancy and development service. It includes a wind tunnel, a CFD expertise, CAD design, 3D digitalization, machining and composites design. Wind tunnel specification Racing car configuration Standard configuration General Type Single return closed-circuit Single return closed-circuit Test section Shape

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Cars Happy Birthday

Car-engineer celebrates its first anniversary with you

Today is a special day for car-engineer.com as it is online since one year now. Charlie and I would like to thank you all for your constantly growing involvement in the website. Let’s come back on this intense year through some statistics. Number of page views of car-engineer.com [image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Page views car-engineer” title=”Page

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Injection advance map generated with CRMT tool

Embedded control system strategy characterization tool by CRMT

By means of a simple vehicle instrumentation, the system developed by CRMT (Research center for thermal machines) allows characterizing, in real time, parameters of the engine such as fuel injection timing (and the spark advance for controlled ignition engine), injection duration and air/fuel ratio in real driving conditions. A device for rapid acquisition of the

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