Volvo’s all-new VEA engine family starts production

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The production process of Volvo’s revolutionary VEA (Volvo Engine Architecture) engine family has commenced in the company’s newly updated engine plant in Skövde, Sweden. Together with the upcoming SPA (Scalable Product Architecture) modular platform, they form a vital part of Volvo’s strategy for technical independence.

VEA’s in-house four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines plus optional driveline electrification (hybrid variants) will replace Volvo’s entire line-up of eight engine architectures. Other than Volvo’s own five-cylinder motor, the rest of its current range uses Ford-based engines (the Yamaha-designed V8 has been discontinued).

Targets for the new, smaller engines are to deliver higher performance than today’s six-cylinder units, while offering lower fuel consumption than the current generation of four-cylinders. Volvo’s revolutionary Flywheel KERS and i-ART systems will play an instrumental role in achieving that goal.

The Volvo S60, V60, XC60, V70, XC70 and S80 will receive the new engines towards the end of the year, while an all-new XC90 is scheduled to utilise both VEA and SPA technologies in full for its 2014 debut.

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Hafriz Shah

Preferring to drive cars rather than desks, Hafriz Shah ditched his suit and tie to join the ranks of Malaysia’s motoring hacks. A car’s technical brilliance is completely lost on him, appreciating character-making quirks more. When not writing this ego trip of a bio, he’s usually off driving about aimlessly, preferably in a car with the right combination of three foot pedals and six gears.

 

Comments

  • Yamaha, aside from wonderfully beautiful pianos and some motorbikes (and *cough* Vocaloid), you get make some great automobile engines, who can forgot your V10 F1 engines, the little jewel that is the 4AGE and the howling beast that is the 1LR-GUE 4.8l V10. As for that Volvo V8, well it did an amazing job with the Noble M600, my most beloved supercar launched in this century. So is Noble getting their engine straight from Yamaha, it’ll be a pain to see it discontinued?

    As for Volvo, can’t wait to see the flywheel KERS implemented in their cars.

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  • Jimmy on May 13, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    We hope XC90 to be bigger than Ninja King.

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