The winner of the UK’s
Royal Academy of Engineering’s MacRobert Award will be announced tomorrow.
JaguarLandRover
(JLR) submitted its Ingenium engines for the Award. JLR launched its first
diesel in January 2015 and the company says the gasoline version “is due for
launch later this year”.
JLR adds that it has “developed an entire
suite of world-leading Ingenium engines” and adds that the company aims “to be
completely self-sufficient in the design and manufacture of all engines by 2020”.
This implies that by 2020 JLR will no longer
be taking delivery of vee diesel engines from Ford Motor Company. At present,
JLR’s vee diesels use compacted graphite iron (CGI) cylinder blocks supplied by
Tupy SA in Brazil.
In its MacRobert Award submission, JLR also notes
that every employee in its green-field Engine Manufacturing Centre outside
Wolverhampton undergoes a two-week “Powertrain Way” training programme which
has “successfully introduced bus drivers, bricklayers and beauticians to new
careers in engineering”.
The facility employs 1,000 people but supports
5,500 in the supply chain, claims JLR.
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