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Ricardo To Assist China’s Lifan In Development Of State-of-the-art Turbocharged Direct Injection Gasoline Engines
Building on a highly successful collaboration over the past five years, it has been announced today that Ricardo will assist Lifan Automobile Group based in Chongqing, China, with the development of a family of highly downsized gasoline engines capable of meeting future Chinese and international fuel economy and emissions regulations.
UndeCommenting on the award of this new contract with Lifan, Dr Simon P Stevens, president of Ricardo Shanghai, said:
“Ricardo is pleased to be able to announce this new project with Lifan, one of China’s most successful and ambitious companies. The project announced today will see us work together to create two highly competitive downsized DI engines conforming to the latest in emissions and fuel economy regulations while delivering levels of performance and refinement expected of world-class products. This new project builds upon our already very positive and long-standing collaboration with Lifan and is a further demonstration of the growing presence of Ricardo in the Chinese market.”