It’s nothing short of an engineering marvel, the Ford 1-liter Ecoboost engine, as it conditions itself to arm vehicles bigger than the EcoSport.
In the European markets, Ford is likely to use the “Fox” engine in the performance variant of the Focus and Fiesta. The company is already working on installing an electric supercharger to the three-cylinder engine to bump up power output to an unbelievable 177bhp!
Presently the 1-liter engine develops two levels of power – 99bhp and 123bhp. The EcoSport for the Indian market is likely to have 123bhp though the 99bhp output would significantly improve fuel economy. Ford will begin using the Ecoboost engines on the Fiesta all over the world. The usage could spread to bigger models such as the C-Max.
Step by step, the 1.0-liter engine will succeed all non-turbo 1.6-litre petrol engines in all Ford global cars. Though Ford understand the hesitancy of customers to downsize from 1.6 to 1.0-liters, it will only prevail until he or she takes a test drive, the company believes!
[Source - CarScoop.Blogspot.com]
Guys is their any shedule our government has set for rolling out Euro5/BS5 emission norms in india?
If the 1.0 pumps out 177hp then there won’t be a market for the 179 hp 1.6 Eco-boost. While working at Ford as far as I remember 1.0 NA will produce 98hp and the Eco-boost 120 hp but then again, it’s in the US.
Eco-boost technology is a combination of single turbocharger and GDI for the 1.0 120hp(fiesta), 1.6 (focus, fusion, escape) and 2.0(focus, fusion, escape, explorer, edge, Taurus) variants; and twin turbo chargers, GDI with air to air inter-cooler for the 3.5(Taurus, f150) v6 that packs some serious 365 hp.
The 1.6, 2.0 and 3.5 get twin independent variable cam timing driven by a timing chain whereas the 1.0 gets the single cam driven by a timing belt.
Loved my days playing around with Fords
Ford is on fire! After learning about Ford’s Ecoboost and Fiat’s Multi-Air, I think good days for petrol heads are coming. Bit disappointed on Fiat since Multi-Air is quite old yet absent in our market. But I thinks Ford’s strategy would bring Ecoboost advantage to us.
The eco-boost variants will cost more over the NA variants. Price difference could be 20-50k(assumption) but they will be expensive. Long term savings for an initial investment
You are a lucky guy working at Ford. Well 1.0 NA 98hp according to IAB is the efficient one and according to you not pricey w.r.t Eco-Boost 1.0. So why not enjoy this unit in Figo and Classic and 1.0 eco-boost 120hp in new Fiesta
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@Sandy: I dont think Fiat Multi Air will enter in Indan Market soon. Fiat will launch it only if India Apply Euro V/Bharat 5 emmission norms in India. We are still having Bharat 4 (Substandard Euro IV) and Bharat 3 (Substandard Euro III) emmission norms in India.
Jay, that’s where my simple thought starts getting corrupted, I mean why these manufacturer wait for the Government to impose them. Look at Polo 1.2 liter TDI, I think it was the smallest engine before Chevy Beat’s 1 liter diesel unit came to market. VW used the same unit with micro hybrid technology for their famous Polo BlueMotion which is very fuel efficient and eco-friendly. So, why not others, because they know that we blindly need fuel efficient cars.
True Sachin, electric motor driven supercharger is interesting. Seems to have more to do with space savings. Google God took me here. Take a look. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_supercharger
India has been big on 3 cyd for long. I hope Maruti will not give up its lead in this technology.
A turbo, 3 cyd in the new Fiesta would have been a perfect match. It however looks like the Fiesta will only get the 80 HP, normally aspirated version of this engine.
thank you for the links and information, I’m sure our readers have a better idea on this topic now
Electric turbocharger sounds interesting!!
any idea how does it work?
Not an electric turbo or super charger. Somewhat similar to Hyundai’s twin scroll turbo in the 2.0 274hp Hyundai Sonata