Innovating New Concepts

For 30 years, FEV has been the innovation engine in the powertrain and vehicle industry.  Our engineers have established a reputation for taking new concepts and developing them into tangible, production-ready solutions that our customers can directly integrate into their product plans.

FEV continually reinvests in internal research and development in order to generate new ideas and further develop emerging technologies.  We also have established an industry-leading benchmarking program that, today, includes a database of hundreds of current and future powertrains and vehicles – a tremendous tool in evaluating new concepts with regard to their future potential.

Our customers have come to rely on FEV as a premier provider of solutions for tomorrow’s engines.  We offer unique solutions, including advanced combustion systems and mechanical components and subsystems as well as CAE techniques and measurement tools.  Similarly, FEV’s Test Systems Division offers state-of-the-art test and instrumentation systems that are designed by engine developers to be used by their peers in the industry.  There are 30 years of hard-earned experience that come packaged with each service or piece of equipment that FEV delivers to its customers.

At FEV, new combustion system concepts begin with thorough analysis and simulation.  Emerging concepts are proven using FEV’s world-class single-cylinder SystemMotor.  The same design and analysis tools that our customers have come to rely upon in the development of their own in-house developments are employed to advance new technologies within FEV’s organization.  FEV has the ability to produce short-run prototype components and engines and has all the tools and capabilities to produce street-ready technology demonstrators.

In just the past few years alone, an impressive array of technology demonstrators have steadily advanced through FEV’s new concept innovation process, producing an impressive list of practical solutions that demonstrate emerging new technologies of interest to the industry.  Some examples include:

• Piezoelectric Common Rail Fuel Injection Systems
• Mechanical VVT systems
• Electromechanical (camless) VVT systems
• Innovative boosting systems
• Turbocharged DI gasoline engines
• Variable compression ratio concepts
• Diesel exhaust gas aftertreatment systems (SCR and DPF based)
• Turbocharged CNG concepts
• Roller bearing engines
• Mild and full hybrid systems for both gasoline and diesel engine prime movers

FEV is ready to help your company to develop new products.  When innovation is necessary to help our customers with their product plans, FEV stands ready, not only with innovative new ideas, but with the knowledge of how to best translate these new ideas into street-ready solutions that can be mass-produced.