INNOVATION
Engines
The strategy of PSA Peugeot Citroën
In a global context where the need to consume less energy and reduce CO2 emissions is paramount, the PSA Peugeot Citroën group is continuing its technological research into clean and economical vehicles. In addition to work on improving the efficiency of internal combustion engines, particularly with HDi engines, the ability of the Group’s engines to run on fuels that incorporate biofuels, the invention of the DPFS (diesel particulate filter system) and research into HDi Hybrids, PSA Peugeot Citroën is also studying “future technologies”.
For example, the hydrogen fuel cell could represent a high-potential energy source for the future.
The advantages of the fuel cell for the environment are many:
• it provides an alternative to fossil fuels,
• it helps to reduce CO2 emissions and therefore to control the greenhouse effect,
• it improves the quality of life in town, thanks to the silent operation of vehicles that use an electric motor and the elimination of local emissions.
This technology, however, still has to overcome a number of technical and economic challenges before large-scale production can be envisaged.
PSA Peugeot Citroën has therefore adopted a research strategy which aims to explore different solutions. This work has therefore given rise to the production of a succession of demonstrators.