The project preparation of the serial production of the Geely Atlas crossover with a power system on Propan-Bhutan took over the Russian engineering firm Innovadia - the exclusive distributor of the Gas Equipment of the Dutch company VIALLE 5 and 6th generations, writes the portal Drom.ru.
We are talking about the annual system, the 5th generation of which is intended for work on a motor with a distributed injection of gasoline, 6th - on a motor with direct injection. Work on the Bit Fuel Modification of Geely Atlas The company Innovadia began in the summer of 2020 with adaptation under the gas model with a 2.4-liter engine (distributed injection).
Innovadia experts also undertook to organize localization of smallness: besides the harness, which will be manufactured in Nizhny Novgorod, there are also original brackets for fastening the elements of the propane-butane system in regular places. At the same time, a snap-in for an insignificant finalization of standard parts on the conveyor, for example, the holes in the floor of the body and in the collector will be drilled in automatic mode.
So, the basis of the gas supply system, which on the 2.4-liter motor will complement the traditional gasoline, will be the KIT of the Dutch company VIALLE ALTERNATIVE FUEL SYSTEM BV, and here the gas tank comes from Turkey - from the enterprise Tugra Makina.
Please note that, in contrast to gearial gas systems for propane-butane, the return of the engine in this case does not fall when the transition to gas. The supply of gas occurs in the liquid phase, in about the temperature of -25 degrees Celsius. As the fuel is consumed, the gas temperature in the cylinder increases, because through the return highway all the time the heated gas is returned - the surplus that did not enter the cylinder. As the developers told us, the temperature in the tank still remains low. The electronic gas supply unit of the gas system takes a signal from gasoline nozzles and calculates the mass of the supplied gas with the calculation so that the power is the same as when working on gasoline.
In the rotor space of changes a bit: nozzles, highways and control unit, but in the "open" access is only a diagnostic connector: we look at the roller.
The refueling connector of Geely Atlas on propane-butane is located in the rear bumper. In the process of work, options were different - or from the stern or on the driver's side.
Because we are talking about the release of serial machines in the Belarus, there will be no shutoff in the cabin. The gas-gas link button is installed instead of a standard plug - on the central panel to the left of the steering column, while the gas level in the cylinder will repel again the regular fuel pointer. When switching from one type of fuel to another, the level will change.
However, when will serial release begins in Zhodino? It turns out that the first ten conveyor Geely Atlas on propane-butane with a motor of 2.4 liters should be collected already at the end of March - early April. There is no exact date, because the "gas workers" are waiting for experts to return the line to the issue of the new Atlas Pro issue, and after the Chinese will be released by the working space, the debugging of the line for the installation of gas-tapping equipment to "old", that is, At the current Atlas.
According to the editorial office of Drom.ru, by the end of the year the plant in Zhodino must issue about 5-6 thousand bitoxic modifications Geely ATLAS 2.4. There is a logical question, will these cars be available from Russian dealers? As the portal writes, with reference to the source in the Russian office of Geely, headquarters are already studying the question of launching a propane-butane execution of Geely Atlas in Russia, and with a high probability, this version will appear (this indicates the volume of release), But at the moment the solution is not yet accepted. Meanwhile, in the summer of last year, the Chinese began to study potential demand: in the salons "Obukhov" could be taken to the test drive propane-butane Geely Atlas. It remains to add that the GBO 5 generation from VIALLE lends the cost of atlas by about 110,000 rubles.