PROPULSION: Is the camshaft being timed out?

摘要

The development of electric vehicle motors, power controls and batteries tend to dominate today's industry's headlines, but R&D of internal combustion engine technologies in its many forms continues. That is underlined by the U.K.'s Brunel University establishing a new future-powertrain research program centering on "intelligent" valve technology and the eventual replacement of the conventional camshaft by electric actuators.