As Volkswagen Group will increase its concentrate on battery-electric vehicles, the automaker has given its Skoda model duty for the longer term growth of the group’s EA 211 collection inside combustion engines.

The engines will energy 50 mannequin traces throughout seven VW Group manufacturers, together with VW, Audi and Cupra.

Skoda is usually handed group duty for older automotive applied sciences or these centered on cost-conscious rising markets. For instance, the model is in control of creating drum brakes, in addition to the MQB A0 small automobile platform, which is geared toward India and southeast Asia.

Skoda presently oversees growth of naturally aspirated MPI variations of the EA 211 vary however will now be answerable for turbocharged TSI variations as nicely.

The EA 211 TSI variations can be found in three-cylinder and four-cylinder codecs and vary in measurement from 1.0 liter to 1.6 liters. They’re utilized in mild-hybrid, plug-in hybrid and non-electrified fashions and are fitted within the bulk of VW Group’s vehicles bought in Europe.

Skoda stated its builders will proceed to enhance and adapt the engines to the wants and laws of dozens of world markets.

“The intention is to develop much more highly effective and extra fuel-efficient engines with decrease emissions, with an emphasis on most reliability,” the model stated.

Skoda started manufacturing of 1.0-liter MPI-type engines from the EA 211 collection in 2012 at its headquarters in Mlada Boleslav within the Czech Republic. Shortly afterwards, the model was put in control of the entire growth of MPI energy models for VW Group.

Skoda developed the 1.2 HTP three-cylinder EA 111, the forerunner of the EA 211, which has been put in in 3.5 million VW Group vehicles over 15 years of manufacturing.