The Japanese truck maker – Mitsubishi Fuso – is a leader in designing fuel efficient, durable medium duty and heavy duty trucks and commercial vehicles. Mitsubishi Fuso invests lot in R&D to develop low pollution diesel engines. As per recent news, Mitsubishi Fuso in collaboration with German manufacturer Daimler AG and U.S. spares producer Detroit Diesel Corp., has developed a large diesel engine with low gas emissions to help fight pollution.
It costs US$1.5 billion for developing the new engine and it is primarily created for all new models of heavy-duty commercial big trucks and dump trucks with large engines produced by Mitsubishi Fuso. The new engine has been heralded as the premier engine upgrade in a decade from a Japanese truck manufacturer.
The other two companies – Daimler and Daimler Truck North America LLC, previously Freightliner, will help in cost cutting along with Mitsubishi Fuso by sharing 90 percent of the parts and put the 10 percent of the remaining parts to meet the market needs by specifications.
This initiative was taken by Mitsubishi Fuso to be in line with the fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles, laid down by the Japanese government which came into effect in 2006. Japan estimates to improve the fuel efficiency up to 12% on the whole, by 2015.
Mitsubishi Fuso was one of the first automobile manufacturers to recognize the view of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the basic cause of global warming is the utilization of fossil fuels. It felt that the best way to deal with the challenge was to introduce fuel economy by reducing the usage of fossil fuel at every step of an automobile’s life cycle.
With the introduction of the new low pollution engine, Mitsubishi Fuso hopes to interest customers in the demand for domestic trucks. The new engine has the propensity to completely remove nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas by using a urea solution in the system. This reduces emissions of particulate matter and nitrogen oxide by over 60 per cent.
Mitsubishi Fuso trucks have displayed remarkable fuel efficiency and durability with their direct-injection diesel engines. These engines have proved to reduce emissions with the introduction of the computer controlled, common-rail system of fuel injection, along with heightened vehicle performance. The system works by letting fuel to be injected at elevated force regardless of the speed of the engine, increasing the fuel and air mix, thus curbing the exhaust fumes and reducing emissions of particulate matter.
Intercoolers and turbochargers are engaged in the vehicle to reducing the temperature of turbocharger pressurised air, increasing air density, lowering combustion temperature and exhaust release, thus increasing fuel efficiency.
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