Volvo's Engine Is Supercharged, Turbocharged, And Electric - The Best Engines

Volvo's Twincharged Electric Twin-Engine Eliminates Lag

Volvo's engine lineup once offered too many options, keeping the costs of the individual engines high. The many variants have been simplified down to a single engine architecture, which now has both gasoline and diesel inline four-cylinder variants. The gasoline four cylinder features a turbocharger as well as a supercharger, allowing for good fuel efficiency, great response, high horsepower, and a wide torque curve.

As a result, this T6 engine architecture has won numerous Ward's Auto 10 Best Engine awards. In this video we'll be looking at the 2018 Volvo S90 T6 Inscription AWD, with it's 316 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque twincharged engine. But it doesn't end there. For the T8 engine Volvo adds a crank-integrated starter generator (C-ISG), as well as a rear-axle electric motor for AWD. The result is a plug-in hybrid with instant torque, good fuel efficiency, and loads of power.

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[EngineeringExplained]

The audio sucks, I know! I’m very sorry about this. As a one man show I always do my best to check focus, lighting, white balance, audio, etc, but sometimes things slip through. In this case my lapel microphone failed to record audio, and I did not find out until editing the footage weeks later. From a time perspective, reshooting really wasn’t an option to maintain my schedule. It’s quite reasonable for audiences to expect a certain level of quality from established channels, and for that I do apologize as this was never my intention. I will do my best to ensure this doesn’t happen again in the future, but I’m sure I’m far from being done with making mistakes. I hope you all can enjoy the cool technology that Volvo packs into this engine, and thank you all so much for your continual support of this channel! I hope you’re having a wonderful day!

[Topgirl]

Now Volvo just needs to make an engine that's Turbocharged, Supercharged, Electric, and Nitrous Injected!

[pgfvsuq]

My family just bought a Volvo XC60 T8 and the only thing that made us hesitant about buying it was the complexity of the drivetrain, but so far it really is an amazing car to drive.

[jd-pynm]

volvo is an amazing brand that gets little if any love and its a damn shame

[ryantyniec]

Insane how much Volvo has changed their "brand" over the years. Coming from the owner of a 72 144s with a 2 litre OHV engine (and a prior owner of a 89 244), Volvo used to make some of the simplest and most durable cars you could buy.

Awesome to see the technology at play here from an engineering perspective, but I could never imagine working on a system like this in my backyard in ten years when it breaks.

[trickylifts]

has supercharger, has turbocharger combined with electric motor...





but no vtec

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[TheMick]

Hi Jason.👋 Amazing Volvo engine technology, awesome whiteboard illustrations, and overall great video. With all that said, the part I found the coolest (for some odd reason😕) was your two frame visual of what just under .08 seconds looks like. Haha. Well done. I love your style of teaching... keep up the great work.👏

[dwis]

It's 2 years later im watching this and wow was that so perfectly informative thank you so much! Any thoughts on how these twin charged engines hold up over time? Still as reliable as we've come to see from volvo?

[raving_]

Sounds like a EE video from the early days. good for the nostalgia.

[Trades]

Volvo continues to amaze me with their powertrain development since the Geely era began. It is great to know that despite the Chinese ownership which many cried would be the end of Volvo, actually allowed the Swedes to remain independent on R&D as well as pump out high quality products that does not feel cheap or low-grade at all.

[Tmad-rjrr]

Great video, very informative. I own a V90 with a T6 engine. It’s very powerful, reliable, and fun to drive. Drives great on the German Autobahn doing 200 kph. I’m very happy with it.

[DanUtley]

Alternative headline: “New Volvo engine has highest cost of lifetime maintenance ever produced.”

[arifleming]

Its literally an engineering masterpiece 👌

[merthyrjoy]

I appreciated this video. I am about to purchase a Volvo XC60 T8 which will bring a new way of driving for me. This video helped me understand how the power train works. Thanks.

[EduardQualls]

Leased an XC60 T8 in 2017: got the first one delivered in Texas. Only problem so far is that the engine/drive train is so quiet & powerful (400HP; 0-60 in 4.9s) & the ride so smooth, that it's very easy to exceed the speed limit significantly, if you're not paying attention. With work-at-home & everything else within electric range, the car has complained twice that the gas was getting old: 2 fill-ups in c. 11 months. Lease ended September, 2020. Residual owed: c. $32k; Blue-Book value: $45k. Yes, I bought it.

[MarcoAurelio-jjho]

Perfect. Thanks. I've got a S90 and it's impressive. Hope this high complex engine is reliable. Congratulations for this amazing channel.

[mertz]

I've always found this setup interesting, but I've always wanted to hear a mechanics perspective on it since they'll be the ones that fix it when it goes wrong and costing me money.

[forzaelite]

It's...




*HYPERCHARGED!!!*

[pe]

My last car was a VW SCIROCCO 1.4T DSG with a twincharger engine...turbo + supercharger...90.000km trouble free 👍

[CarlosOteroC]

That frame by frame example... man you are a great educator! 👌👌