Bobcat Could Boast Ethanol Boost
Auto blogs are buzzing about ethanol boosting technology.
Pickup Trucks.com reports this week that Ford is developing a new line of turbocharged ethanol direct-injection gasoline engines under the code name Bobcat.
Bobcat engines will feature ethanol boost technology, developed by Ethanol Boosting Systems, LLC of Cambridge, Mass., that promises 5 to 10 percent greater fuel economy than EcoBoost engines.
Ethanol boosting starts with a small turbocharged engine with separate gasoline and ethanol fuel injectors for each cylinder. The gasoline system mixes fuel and air in the motor’s intake manifold using port injection. The second system injects small amounts of ethanol directly into the combustion chamber to control premature detonation, or knock, that results from the high temperature and pressure of a turbocharged engine. The ethanol prevents knock by cooling the air/fuel mixture until the engine is ready for combustion.
The Bobcat engines could become viable alternatives to diesel engines in full-size pickups.
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kum dollison
This is the silliest nonsense I’ve ever read. It’s like all they want to do is stall around weaving silly pipedreams until the inevitable bankruptcy.
There is NO, and there WILL BE NO Infrastructure for 100% Ethanol.
TOMORROW, They could make it a Flex-Fuel, use VVT technology to raise the compression/lower the amount of fuel needed for E85 operation, and increase the hp/mileage above that of gasoline.
Instead they show us a “sky-castle.” Nutz.
Just watching
Well said Kum!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello
This isn’t 100% ethanol! There is a small tank that needs to be filled up every 5000 miles. The rest is regular gas.
Scott R. Hite
It simply injects ethanol directly into the combustion chamber during the compression stroke to control detonation and cool the intake charge. Don’t be stupid about this because of a bias against ethanol. It will work to dramatically improve the efficiency of a gasoline powered engine by using small quantities of ethanol in the process.
Onward to the bias against ethanol that is being perpetrated and controlled by the oil companies. You morons that repeat their anti-ethanol propaganda should ask yourselves how Brazil powers nearly all of its vehicles from ethanol? Using your flawed logic and the propaganda supplied by big oil, Brazil would be in a vicious cycle of using more energy to utilize the ethanol or however you twits describe this dilemma. So just stop being morons and look at ethanol as another chemical that can be used in the internal combustion engine. And stop believing the oil companies.
Eco-Boost Engines Improve Fuel Economy with Ethanol - Domestic Fuel
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Water_Methanol_Injection_Kit
What is the difference between Ford ethanol and a Water Methanol Injection Kit?
Import tuners have been using water methanol injection kit technology to improve turbo performance for a while.
The following is a link to Water / Methanol Injection Kit used on F150 by snow performance.
http://www.snowperformance.net/products.php?p_cat=203
The following is a link of Water / Methanol Injection Kit how to by AEM.
http://www.aempower.com/ViewCategory.aspx?CategoryID=120
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