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Hi,
I haven’t read about any “hack” from that direction on a Volvo but it’s possible in my mind of not knowing what I’m talking about. (:)
I can say that Toyota Tacoma uses Delphi components and that’s probably on most all of Toyota’s 4 cylinders engines. There is some cross trading going on in the dark places of many cars.
Suppliers will wheel and deal with anyone and will make those deals with stipulations of branding and patents up the wazoo! Once those breakdown or expire the aftermarket industry steps up.
Many are the same that were in the original game!
This method of business that been going on for decades is why we pay way too much for vehicles or out space-age products.
I visited the National Air Museum in Dayton Ohio last week.
It an immense place and it has gathered together decades of examples of mans endeavors to invent for the good and the bad of mankind.
It’s a place everyone should visit as it’s a full scale display and sponsored by many of the players that have benefited from it all.
Admission is free and you can spend the whole day there, even if you do not read everything!
It’s an education all by itself and only limited by the way you think about the worlds involvement.
My overall draw from it was, it shows that lot of mans efforts was wasted on the fact that we didn’t and don’t get along with each other, on this one and only planet, we have!
Part defense and part a bluff. Shame on us!
Another exhibition park is in Dayton highlights several area industrial giants of then and today!
We eat well thanks to appliances being made there.
It shows connections of how past corporations interlaced and worked collectively to make America unique!
I did not realize how the days of Dayton Electronic Laboratory’s Company (DELCO) and their many vendor sources meshed.
Lots of their stuff is made all over the world today, or can I say(?), South of us with the help of NAFTA.
Ohio has taken lumps and paid a large price in adjusting to America’s open door policy of selling or giving things away to help the world to become a more balanced civilization.
As far as on a Volvo, they could have used anything that would run their four cylinder engines then.
They do and did what we do and kept their sources regional to Europe.
With Volvo having newer models, with Chinese influence, I wouldn’t be surprised at anything being assembled any longer!
China is ramping up at a screaming rate! Volvo is sitting right there with bold statements of what they are going to produce and it seems to have some keys in their hands!
Since there is a race taking place among all car manufacturers. Toyota is a big leader in the electric car field!
Battery electrodes are under a big looking glass and break throughs are inevitable very soon from my perspective. Polymers are involved in several places in the batteries.
I predict It’s going to be led by those that have the most experience building electric controllers and standardizing the battery charge package configuration. It will drop the cost tremendously.
It will have to fit several makers of car bodies directly and have to cover many years of production, period! This will make the infrastructure expand the fastest and cheapest way possible!
In town driving will be accomplished by inductive charge stands solar powered.
I have seen some going up here in California at rest stops! I foresee parking lots full of them where you work or even shop!
Electric cars are touting out here it is the cost equivalent of one dollar a gallon of gasoline price to drive. Car repair and maintenance is far lower than today’s gasoline burner complicated support systems.
You will pull into today’s converted gas stations infrastructure and under go a complete exchange that takes about five or ten minutes. Very similar to an oil change!
Cars will talk to those power houses and seek them out by following the owner’s personal perimeters of where to shop.
No matter if you rent or own one or have fleet these cars. Perimeters will be set and it will take care of keeping itself charged based on driving history or it destinations.
With that said, you can probably shift a complete system onto the red block, provided the injectors drivers are compatible.
You might have to be somewhat of a software writer to fine tune a system to the breathing characters of whatever year of a red block too!
How much of a need or time, do you have to invest is a bigger question?
What is your reason or gain you would expect to achieve to even work with another system on a 240?
Phil
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