Scania launches new-gen engines with more lifespan
Scania’s new D11 and D13 engines will make their way onto the water with a diesel-electric hybrid optionScania has launched a new generation of industrial engines with marine applications that it claims will provide less downtime, have half as much again extra lifespan, and the best torque and fuel efficiency in its class.
The new 13.0-litre six-cylinder Scania D13 was launched, and a new D11 teased at bauma 2022, a Munich-based construction industry fair, as a new engine platform optimised for industrial, marine and power generation applications.
The new engines are expected to arrive on the Australian market in around 2025, after initially launching in Europe and North America.
Compared with the previous generation of engine, the new D13 will provide up to a 7.0 per cent fuel saving via less internal friction and more turbocharger efficiency.
Alongside it, Scania showed its “E-machine” electric drivetrain that could one day power larger recreational motor yachts once the technology becomes available for the Australian market in about 2025, after an initial launch in Europe and North America.
The E-machine – an electric engine that sandwiches in between the engine and the gearbox and assists the engine – was teased earlier this year at the 2022 Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show in prototype form.
More torque
The electric motor can provide an extra 1500Nm of continuous torque, or 2000Nm of peak torque from almost zero revs, helping the conventional diesel engine perform at a much higher level.
Rather than become a replacement for a diesel engine, the idea behind the E-machine is that it can help an existing engine greatly reduce fuel use and emissions by providing electric drive during the engine’s least fuel-efficient phases.
The move to provide a half-step towards a fully electric drivetrain is because Scania sees internal combustion engines being a large part of markets, including the marine world, “for the foreseeable future”.
Scania also teased a new 11.0-litre DC11 six-cylinder engine, which it claims will become its most-fuel efficient platform yet, featuring more power and torque and with a base engine lifespan up to 50 per cent longer.
The new engine group is the result of a decade of work from Scania. It claims the new engines will allow users to comply with future emissions standards that don’t yet apply.
Scania power is used by Australian luxury motor yacht brands including Maritimo and Whitehaven.
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