{"id":30,"date":"2014-05-29T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2019-03-29T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T10:11:21","slug":"boost-fords-ecoboost-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/boost-fords-ecoboost-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Boost To Ford\u2019s EcoBoost Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>At the billion pound Advanced Propulsion Centre, students study the 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine to further improve its emissions<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are a college student and studying zero emissions vehicles, ever wonder how much would it cost? Well, the <a title=\"Lboro University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Loughborogh University<\/strong><\/a> in UK has taken the study to a whole new level by putting in a billion pounds on new Advanced Propulsion Centre. Here the students will study<a title=\"Ford engines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Ford engine<\/strong><\/a> in 1.0 litre size with EcoBoost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning this centre will be offering a total of four professor-type positions, including one chair. The purpose is to teach students about low-carbon vehicle technologies, especially the hybrid and electric ones. These new positions are costing the school \u00a31.5 million. The biggest project currently is <a title=\"Ford Active\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.co.uk\/FordFleet\/NewsAndReviews\/FordForBusiness\/2012\/November\/FiestaActiveCityStop\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Advanced Combustion Turbocharged Integrated Variable-Valve train Engine<\/strong> <\/a>(ACTIVE) costing \u00a326 million, which is funded by Ford and others along with school itself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prime objective of ACTIVE is to study already popular 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine built by Ford and to further improve its efficiency that will ensure, it exceeds 2020 emission regulations.<br \/>\nThe world is very confident that Loughborough University will be able to improve this engine as it has years of experience with automakers \u2013 Rolls-Royce, Lotus Hotfire engine in 2008 and <a title=\"Fuel Cells\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fuel_cell\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fuel Cells<\/strong> <\/a>in 2007 \u2013 on advanced energy technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the billion pound Advanced Propulsion Centre, students study the 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine to further improve its emissions &nbsp; &nbsp; If you are a college student and studying zero emissions vehicles, ever wonder how much would it cost? Well, the Loughborogh University in UK has taken the study to a whole new level by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,15],"tags":[16,17,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fordtransitengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}