Lightest Honda Diesel Engine Honda’s new 1.6-liter i-DTEC is comprised of an aluminium cylinder head joined to an open deck aluminium block. It is weighing 47 kg less than Honda’s 2.2-liter i-DTEC engine. All the individual components have been redesigned to minimize their weight and size and advanced production techniques have helped reduce weight even further. […]
The new 1.6L i-DTEC Honda engine Read More »
The world is a patchwork of different regulations governing emissions from heavy-duty vehicles. This confusion is costing money for both manufacturers and their customers. However, the different regulations are now coming closer to one another and, on the horizon, there is legislation that also relates to fuel consumption. Global News now analyses the different terms.
Heavy duty Emissions legislations for dummies Read More »
A driving cycle commonly represents a set of vehicle speed points versus time. It is used to assess fuel consumption and pollutants emissions of a vehicle in a normalized way, so that different vehicles can be compared. The driving cycle is performed on a chassis dynamometer, where tailpipes emissions of the vehicle are collected and
The different driving cycles Read More »
A cordierite perspective The cordierite is issued from sedimentary rocks. Deposits can be found in Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Madagascar, USA and Canada. It has a high thermal resistance and is a relatively strong material. However, it has a high coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and a relatively low density. Cordierite is a high volume
Cordierite for catalytic converters Read More »
