What is Shell V-Power® gasoline? How does it work?

What is Shell V-Power gasoline?

How does Shell V-Power gasoline work?

Through extensive consumer research you've told us that premium customers are busy, active consumers who want a fuel that enhances their driving experience, helps their vehicle to perform at its best, protects their vehicles and gives them a carefree driving experience where they feel they are always in control.

We’ve developed a unique fuel to help you meet these requirements. Shell V-Power is our premium gasoline available at Shell stations across Canada.
 

Shell V-Power gasoline helps clean the deposits in your engine. On average, Shell V-Power gasoline cleans up to half of the power-robbing intake valve deposits in your engine in as little as two fills.
 

• Shell V-Power gasoline was designed to help remove power-robbing deposits from the engine. The clean up of these harmful intake valve deposits allows your engine to run smoother and to help improve performance.
• Tests on representative vehicles have shown that, on average, Shell V-Power gasoline is able to remove more than 50 per cent of existing deposits on intake valves in as little as two fill-ups.
• The enhanced cleaning properties of Shell V-Power gasoline help most vehicles operate better by reducing intake system deposits faster than before.
• Shell V-Power gasoline is a unique formulation that helps you get better performance from your vehicle.

Because it is Shell gasoline, you know you can trust its quality.

To understand how Shell V‑Power gasoline works, we first need to look at how a gasoline engine works.

The basic operating principle of a gasoline engine is quite simple. Gasoline is drawn from the fuel tank by the fuel pump, and carried through a fuel injector or carburetor, which allows the fuel to vaporize, and feeds it along with a measured quantity of air from the intake manifold into the engine cylinders.

The job of the engine is to convert the chemical energy stored in the fuel into work — in other words, into operation of the vehicle. The air-fuel mixture is allowed into the cylinder by an intake valve so it can be burned in a controlled fashion, creating a tremendous force, which pushes a piston in the cylinder downward.

Virtually all vehicles work on the four-stroke cycle. During the intake stroke, the piston moves downward while the air-fuel mixture is drawn in from the top through the intake valve. The piston then reverses direction, moving upward in the compression stroke to compress the fuel.

Next comes the power stroke, created when 30,000 or more volts of electricity from the spark plug ignites the compressed air-fuel mixture to release its energy and drive the piston back downward. The cycle ends with the exhaust stroke, when the piston travels back to the top of the cylinder, pushing the exhaust gases out through the exhaust valve. When the piston reaches the top of the cylinder it’s ready to begin the four-stroke cycle again.

At the bottom of the piston, a piston rod connects to a crankshaft, converting the up-and-down motion of the piston into rotary motion. At an average 3,000 revolutions per minute (RPM), each piston makes 100 strokes per second.

As the fuel flows through the intake system it encounters high temperatures that can start to thermally decompose it, along with any lubricant that enters from the crankcase ventilation system or that leaks down the intake valve stem. The products of that decomposition can form deposits in critical areas, sticking to various parts of the intake system that are responsible for metering the fuel and controlling air flow into the cylinder.

Shell V‑Power gasoline was lab tested using engine test beds and in vehicles on chassis dynamometers ("rolling roads"), as well as in actual on-road conditions in Canada and acts on the entire intake system to clean up those areas and keep them clean with repeated fill-ups. 

The result is that when you use Shell V‑Power gasoline in your vehicle, it begins removing the power-robbing intake valve deposits that normally accumulate in the engine.  Shell V‑Power gasoline is a unique formulation that helps you get maximum performance from your vehicle.

Commitment to fuel innovation – that’s what separates Shell from ordinary fuels.

Try Shell V‑Power gasoline and start cleaning your engine today.

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