Like Tata Motors’ Jaguar Land Rover with its new Ingenium engines, Geely’s Volvo Car, once also owned by Ford, has been weaning itself off other automakers’ engines and substituting its own.
It is now fitting its own Euro VI compliant Drive-E engines in all of its front wheel drive models.
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“This roll-out of the Drive-E powertrain family, [our] in-house designed and built engines and gearboxes, marks a further step in technological independence and also ends [our] reliance on engines sourced from other manufacturers,” the automaker said in a statement.
The engines are built with a maximum of two litres and four cylinders, using a mixture of turbocharging, supercharging and electrification to produce varying power outputs. This configuration allows for lower weight, size and complexity, all resulting in lower emissions and fuel consumption.
New to various models across the range are petrol powered T2 and T3, and diesel powered D2 and D3 engines. They join the four-cylinder T5/T5AWD and D4 Drive-E engines which were launched in 2014.
Along with the new Drive-E engines, a number of other enhancements have also been introduced across the model range for the 2016 model year.
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