Forget High Fuel Prices as BMW Offers Water Injection Technology

September 2, 2015

It was never so easy to introduce water based engine technology, but BMW has solved this mystery by introducing the state of the art water injection technology.

Just a BMW can do that, one of the experts at BMW’s Munich-based manufacturing facility says that BMW is keen to bring water injection technology for the world. BMW is always on the top of the engine technologies and adopting a forward-thinking approach. BMW love to bring innovative features to enhance engine performance and fuel efficiency among its long range of vehicles. The most recent advancement of the water injection system is great news for its huge customer base in the world. The BMW has named the project M4 GTS (concept car) and working on 3-litre turbocharged six-cylinder in-line engine.  The question arises, how will they do it?  Basically, the concept is based on the use of an innovative water injection system that increases power output and torque while reduces fuel consumption. This technology involves cooling cylinders that inject water directly into the combustion chamber and enable engines to produce higher outputs. Engineers at BMW argue that this technology helps to reduce internal engine temperature from 400-500⁰C to 330⁰C, simultaneously it brings an improvement of 3-8% in fuel consumption. There are three multi-point injectors for the 1.5-litre three-cylinder engine. These injectors enable direct injection of water into the combustion chambers and ensure indirect supply into the inlet manifold. It has been found during prototype testing that power increased from 204ps to 218ps and generated a torque of 320Nm from 280Nm. The Bosch (The German Tier 1 supplier) has provided some parts for the innovative water injection system. Initially, BMW is bringing a water cooling system in a hot coupe, but planning to introduce this system in all of its turbocharged petrol engines. The engineers at BMW say that cooling system will become as common as variable valve timing (VVT). It is important to mention, this system will involve the precise amount of petrol as well with the water. When asked a question about the supply of water, the engineers explained, that the water will come from the tank in the engine bay and from air conditioning. Easily get the distilled water and leave for a drive. The fuel prices going up, don’t worry. BMW has solved this mystery by introducing water injection technology. However, other details will be displayed in coming Frankfort Motor show.