WHY THE EV HELPS ENGINE POWER RECOVERY?

Whenever you drive through a road on a vehicle equipped with a non-turbo charged conventional motor that runs on a gasoline suction system, you will promptly notice a gradual but significant engine power loss as you go up from sea level geographies to higher altitude grounds. The power loss ratio is about 1% per every 100m and it becomes more evident upon reaching an altitude of 800m above sea level.

At the altitude level of Bogota, for instance, it has been found that a car engine usually loses about one third (1/3) of the manufacture specified power for the vehicle. This setback is a direct consequence of the atmospheric pressure reduction that takes place at high altitudes where the air density (or actual oxygen mass) entering the combustion chambers decreases.

Such reduction of oxygen levels inside the engine makes the normal air/gas combustion to become incomplete, thus resulting in a poor non efficient combination which inhibits the full release of the energy potential contained in that fuel.

The ecological valve has also been designed to address and fix that motor hindrance as it will stimulate constant air/gas balanced ratios in function of the variable altitudes encountered. It simply means that more oxygen amounts will accumulate to allow a more complete and efficient combustion process thus improving the engine response to the accelerator stepping.

Nowadays car manufacturing technology using multi inlet valves has become quite popular; one example to consider is the one found in four-cylinder engine systems which displaced the traditional 8-valve on cylinder head motor design (total of 4 intake and 4 exhaust valves).

Today, either the 12-valve system (2 inlet and 2 exhaust valve set per cylinder) or the 16-valve system (2 inlet and 2 exhaust valve per cylinder) will support a better engine aeriation process both at the airflow entry -thus combustion is improved- and at the exit of burned gases resulting from the combustion cycle. This move actually frees space inside the cylinder to allow the admission of a fresh air-fuel mixture.

Comparatively speaking, the above multi-valve structures make it possible today for same size engines or motors with an equivalent cylinder arrangement to get to perform more efficiently than any conventional carbureted engines, just by improving torque and high RPM performance.

The EV, which is basically a fresh air admission valve at normal temperature levels, will help increase the air volumetric efficiency in the motor, thus improving the engine response to the accelerator.