{"id":24045,"date":"2013-10-04T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2013\/10\/pe-built-engine-good-enough-to-power-north-america\/"},"modified":"2013-10-04T21:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T19:25:24","slug":"pe-built-engine-good-enough-to-power-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pe-built-engine-good-enough-to-power-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"PE built engine good enough to power North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Struandale Engine Plant (SEP) in <a title=\"Port Elizabeth\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Port+Elizabeth\">Port Elizabeth<\/a>, South Africa, will begin production of a new Power Stroke 3,2-litre diesel engine for the North American market in early 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The five-cylinder engine, built off the Puma Global Ranger family of i4 and i5 engines, will be one of three engines available for the new North American Transit produced in Kansas City, Missouri. Transit will eventually replace the current Ford E-series commercial van family sold in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe build-up to Job 1 for the North American Transit engine production is proceeding well and according to plan,\u201d says Satya Banda, Plant Manager of the Struandale Engine Plant.<\/p>\n<p>Installation of the new equipment required for the 31\u00a0000 unit increase in installed capacity has been completed and several batches of trial and pre-production engines have been shipped to the vehicle plant in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time <a title=\"Ford Motor Company\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/M_,045_From_Machines_to_Mutual_Funds\/Motor_Vehicle_Mfrs\/ford_motor_company_8633.html\">Ford Motor Company<\/a> of Southern Africa will be exporting to the US, and the feedback from the Kansas City plant, as well as the results from the series of extended durability tests performed on production validation engines on our high-tech dyno have been very encouraging,\u201d Banda states.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Ford+Engine\">Power Stroke 3.2 engine<\/a> is expected to be B20 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Biodiesel\">biodiesel<\/a> compatible and to appeal to commercial van customers in industries such as emergency services, construction and delivery logistics, where fuel economy, cost of ownership and longevity are of paramount importance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Ford+Engine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29756\" alt=\"North American Transit i5 Engine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7db55_North_American_Transit_i5_Engine.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">North American Transit i5 engine \u2013 just for engineers to salivate over \u2013 go ahead and save the image!<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Struandale Engine Plant (SEP) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, will begin production of a new Power Stroke 3,2-litre diesel engine for the North American market in early 2014. The five-cylinder engine, built off the Puma Global Ranger family of i4 and i5 engines, will be one of three engines available for the new North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3330],"tags":[3338,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-24045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-port-elizabeth","7":"tag-mype-co-za","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}