Jaguar Land Rover Reveals Details Of Ingenium Engine Family

In an effort to build low-emissions, lightweight and powerful engines for their global customers, Jaguar Land Rover today announced a host of details on the new Ingenium engine family. 

The architecture is designed from the outset to be flexible, with common design features over both gasoline and diesel applications, which will allow the company to achieve manufacturing efficiency and greater speed to market as changes and design revisions are implemented. The platform has been engineered in-house by Jaguar Land Rover’s engineers and production will begin in early 2015 at a brand-new facility designed solely around the platform’s production – the Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre near Wolverhampton, UK.

The state-of-the-art Engine Manufacturing Centre near Wolverhampton is the first new plant that Jaguar Land Rover has built from the ground up. The site represents an investment of more than £500 million and will create almost 1400 new jobs by the time the plant reaches full capacity.

The new Jaguar XE. 

The Ingenium engine platform is configurable to enable installation in a range of new Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles, allowing the company to take advantage of manufacturing economy of scale savings while producing a quality engine platform to ensure world-class performance. The design is scalable up or down to create larger or smaller-displacement engines in the future, and can accommodate all-wheel, front-wheel, and rear-wheel-drive designs. 

In addition, Ingenium will also support manual and automatic transmission designs along with hybrid drive systems; in short, it’s been engineered from the outset to take advantage of all current powertrain technologies along with future developments as they become available.

The engine design is centered around strong and compact aluminum blocks for both gasoline and diesel versions, which share the same bore, stroke, cylinder spacing, and 500cc/cylinder capacity. This commonality is a large part of the flexibility the platform offers; as future fuel standards arrive, or the market demands, the engine design can be adapted for these future requirements.

The company has also invested £40 million to expand the Powertrain Engineering facility at the Whitley Technical Centre to support future developments and powertrain technology.

The commonality between engine parts will allow both gas and diesel versions to share many common internal parts, which will help to reduce complexity, excess inventory , and simplify the manufacturing process while raising quality – the fewer parts the company has to contend with, the more efficiently they can build the parts that remain.

“Customers around the world are increasingly demanding cleaner-running, more efficient vehicles that maintain or even enhance the performance attributes expected of a rugged all-terrain vehicle or a high performance car. Our Ingenium engines deliver this to a new level,” said Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart, Jaguar Land Rover Group Engineering Director.

The technologies Jaguar Land Rover engineers focused on during the design process include a host of friction-reduction strategies:

  • Roller bearings on camshafts and balancer shafts to reduce friction, instead of machined bearing surfaces
  • Computer controlled variable oil pumps that deliver fluid as required at all speeds, loads, and temperatures
  • Computer controlled variable water pumps that adjust coolant flowing dependent upon conditions
  • Simplified camshaft drive system
  • Crankshafts that are offset from the centerline of the block
  • Electronically controlled piston jets to improve oil pumping efficiency

Each of the engine designs will be turbocharged and use direct fuel injection along with variable valve timing and start-stop technology – the latest in engine efficiency and performance standards.

By the time the platform comes to market, it will be one of Jaguar Land Rover’s most-tested designs, with over 72,000 hours of dyno testing, more than two million miles of real-world testing, and the equivalent of more than eight years of the harshest testing conditions the JLR engineers could mastermind. 

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