Fiat has won the prestigious international Technobest prize for the second year running for its innovation TwinAir system after winning last year for its MultiAir technology.
The Technobest 2010 prize was awarded by the international, independent Autobest jury made up of 15 specialist journalists from a number of countries including Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.
The award jury acknowledged the absolute technological innovation of the new TwinAir, which takes the concept of downsizing to an extreme and thanks to electro-hydraulic control of the engine inlet valves as seen in the MultiAir engines, makes it possible to achieve outstanding efficiency and minimal consumption.
The new TwinAir engine as previewed on the new 500 supermini model, is ideally suited to being coupled with an electric engine, to produce a hybrid propulsion unit. It new system maximises the advantages of hybrid propulsion by making it possible to store and recover the energy normally dissipated during frequent deceleration and braking.
The 85bhp TwinAir engine now becoming available in the new Fiat 500, produces CO2 emissions of just 92 g/km with the version with MTA Dualogic gearbox, the lowest offered today in the petrol engine market.
The 2010 Technobest Prize is further confirmation of Fiat’s achievements in the field of reducing CO2 emissions and increasing fuel efficiency. The Italian car maker also registering the lowest average CO2 emissions for cars sold in Europe in the first half of 2010, at just 123.5 g/km.
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