The Syner-D project is a collaborative group working on the technologies and software required to significantly reduce the CO2 output and enhance the performance feel of a premium brand diesel passenger car. It will meet future worldwide emissions standards by use of engine and aftertreatment technologies. The partner contributions have further extended the knowledge of the benefits and constraints these respective technologies offer. Deploying these technologies into future mainstream programmes will bring a major competitive advantage to the project members.

The UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) sponsored HyBoost project was a collaborative research programme to develop an ultra efficient optimised gasoline engine concept with “Intelligent Electrification”. The basis of the concept was use of a highly downsized 1.0L boosted engine in conjunction with relatively low cost synergistic ‘12+X’ Volt electrical management system and electrical supercharger technologies to deliver better value CO2 reduction than a full hybrid vehicle. Project targets of 99 g/km CO2 as measured over the European Drive Cycle (EDC) in a standard 2011 Ford Focus whilst maintaining the same performance and driveability attributes as a 2009 production 2.0L version of the car were achieved, and a potential route through to