Recently which automobile company and National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) have joined hands for development and commercialization of ‘swirl mesh lean direct injection (LDI) system’ for developing hybrid electrical vehicles using turbine technology?

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Hybrid EVS using turbine tech-Ashok Leyland and researchers at the National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) have joined hands for development and commercialization of ‘swirl mesh lean direct injection (LDI) system’ for developing hybrid electrical vehicles using turbine technology. NCCRD is an arm of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.IIT Madras researchers at NCCRD are developing an indigenously-designed micro gas turbine, whose core is a patented combustion technology called ‘Swirl Mesh Lean Direct Injection (LDI) system.