As Volkswagen Team raises its emphasis on battery-electric powered automobiles, the automaker has supplied its Skoda model accountability for the long run improvement of the group’s EA 211 sequence inner combustion engines.
The engines will electricity 50 product strains throughout 7 VW Team manufacturers, which include VW, Audi and Cupra.
Skoda is generally handed team accountability for more mature automotive systems or individuals targeted on price tag-aware rising marketplaces. For instance, the model is in demand of producing drum brakes, as properly as the MQB A0 modest automobile system, which is aimed at India and southeast Asia.
Skoda now oversees improvement of by natural means aspirated MPI variations of the EA 211 selection but will now be accountable for turbocharged TSI variations as properly.
The EA 211 TSI variations are offered in 3-cylinder and 4-cylinder formats and selection in measurement from one. liter to one.six liters. They are utilized in moderate-hybrid, plug-in hybrid and non-electrified styles and are equipped in the bulk of VW Group’s automobiles offered in Europe.
Skoda stated its builders will proceed to enhance and adapt the engines to the demands and polices of dozens of world marketplaces.
“The goal is to acquire even much more effective and much more gasoline-effective engines with decreased emissions, with an emphasis on most dependability,” the model stated.
Skoda commenced creation of one.-liter MPI-variety engines from the EA 211 sequence in 2012 at its headquarters in Mlada Boleslav in the Czech Republic. Soon later on, the model was place in demand of the comprehensive improvement of MPI electricity models for VW Team.
Skoda produced the one.two HTP 3-cylinder EA 111, the forerunner of the EA 211, which has been put in in three.five million VW Team automobiles in excess of 15 yrs of creation.