Navistar Rising: A26 Engine Signals New Chapter
Navistar’s new A26 diesel engine, unveiled at TMC in Nashville, is the product of a radically new approach to engine design by the company.
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Navistar’s new A26 diesel engine, unveiled at TMC in Nashville, is the product of a radically new approach to engine design by the company.
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NASHVILLE — When International President Bill Kozek came from Paccar in 2014 to right the ship at Navistar, he knew the situation was critical. And he knew the task before him was immense. In fact, many industry experts were ready to write off the engine manufacturer. But he expressed confidence that the talent, the determination and the sheer stubbornness of Navistar’s employees would eventually win out.
At the Technology & Maintenance Council Annual Meeting Monday night, the company announced a completely new and thoroughly modern family of diesel engines that, in Kozek’s words, will allow Navistar to not only regain the ground it lost during the divisive EGR-SCR wars of the early 2000s, but to also stake a claim as a diesel engine technology leader at a time of tremendous change in the North American trucking industry.
Leading International’s charge into the new, technological future is the A26 diesel engine – a wholly new powerplant, developed using the company’s also-new Project Alpha engine design program, a radically new diesel engine design philosophy.
Project Alpha was initiated as a way to cast off old, stratified engine design thinking, and approach the concept of a modern, fuel-efficient diesel from a totally new perspective. Navistar’s new A26, 12.4-liter diesel engine is the first product of that program.
“Project Alpha has fundamentally changed how we design diesel engines,” Kozek said. “The International A26 has been designed to address the rigorous demands of Class 8 truck customers. It’s been tested to extremes and meets a demanding B10 design life standard for an unprecedented 1.2 million miles.”
The new A26 is also a first glance at a new, but quickly growing collaboration between International and Volkswagen, which acquired …Read the rest of this story
