While several of the competitors flee from the development of the internal combustion engine, Ford is now looking at how the life of the fossil car can be extended. It reveals a new patent application.
Ford has handed over the technical drawings for a new technology that could possibly extend the life of the internal combustion engine.
This is written by Carbuzz, which has found the patent application at the US Patent Office.
Specifically, Ford works with an advanced form of combustion in the PCV system. An optimization of the process if you like.
Ford will make this possible by equipping the internal combustion engines with an extra pre-chamber. Keeping Ford's idea as it was drawn, told and described to the US authorities, it may not be necessary to add the extra fuel that similar systems need today.
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Ford idea will not only be able to release more horsepower, it will also be able to reduce the amount of soot particles in the intake and on the exhaust valves.
Incidentally, Ford is not alone in still working on and developing the internal combustion engine. A brand such as Toyota has long maintained that it is wrong to focus exclusively on the electric motor and thus the electric car.
Furthermore, Ford has also said that it will build V8 engines 'forever'. More specific to the Mustang model.
'Whether we're going to be the last to do it, as Ford managing director Jim Farley said recently. Read more about it here .
