EcoBoost is Ford’s term for its own application of a combination of turbocharging and direct injection to its family of gasoline-fueled engines. Although the individual components make an engine more expensive, if for no other reason than that they’re there, Ford claims that EcoBoost is less expensive than diesel engines or hybrids.

Ford intends to apply the concept to a full range of engines from V-6 to inline four—though V-8s are noticeably absent because an EcoBoosted V-6 engine will provide the same performance as a V-8 (although it also suggests the for ultra-high performance applications, EcoBoost could be applied to larger engines with more than six cylinders).

The first engine in the EcoBoost series is the V6. The engine first appeared in the 2007 Lincoln MKR Concept under the name TwinForce. The engine was designed to deliver power and torque output equivalent to a typical 6.0L or larger displacement V8 while achieving at least 15% better fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse emissions compared to the engine V8.

Ford has so far unveiled two different four-cylinder engines equipped with EcoBoost technology in concept vehicles. Like the 3.5L EcoBoost V6, both engines are turbocharged and direct injected. Ford will produce a new 2.0-litre and small-displacement version of Ford’s EcoBoost advanced gas engine in Ford Cologne Engine Plant, Ford Craiova Engine Plant and Ford Valencia Plant in Spain in 2009.

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