According to our friends at PickupTrucks.com, Ford is developing an engine which might offer a powerful alternative to diesels at a lower price. Codenamed Bobcat, the gasoline-powered engine allegedly begins with Ford's EcoBoost architecture and then, with the help of ethanol injection, goes places turbocharged engines can't normally venture. By using a secondary set of injectors to shoot ethanol from a separate tank into the combustion chamber, compression ratios can be drastically raised without pre-ignition, thus boosting fuel economy another 10 percent and overall power output quite a bit — think 500 HP and 700 lb-ft of torque from a five-liter V8.
Ethanol Injection: Next-Gen Ford Ethanol Injection Engine, Codenamed Bobcat, Eyeballing Diesel Market
Next-Gen Ford Ethanol Injection Engine, Codenamed Bobcat, Eyeballing Diesel Market
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