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Honeywell Global Turbo Forecast projects 49M turbocharged vehicle sales, $12B revenue per year by 2019

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The continued growth of turbocharging technologies will be driven by requirements for manufacturers to meet global environmental emissions regulations and bolstered by strong demand in emerging markets. In addition to improving fuel efficiency, downsized turbocharged engines also reduce harmful exhaust emissions.

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Honeywell Transportation Systems Forecast: turbocharged vehicles to account for 48% of annual global sales by 2021; electric boosting emerges

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Regional highlights include: In North America, more engine downsizing is expected. OnRAMP can reduce development time from months to days as well as help optimize engine controls of subsystems designed to reduce CO 2 and other emissions. The current average engine size is a 3.0-liter liter six-cylinder.

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New Mahle piston ring coating for high-output GTDI engines; chromium nitride using high-velocity oxygen fuel process

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In downsized GTDI engines conventional top-ring plasma rings are not sufficiently robust to survive high levels of low speed pre-ignition activity associated with low-speed, high-boost conditions found with GTDI engines. Johns, Michigan plant and at Mahle’s facilities in Europe, South America and Aguascalientes, Mexico.

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The EV Battery Wish List

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Extrapolating from company targets, a future compact-size Lucid—think the size of Tesla Model 3 or Model Y—could decisively downsize its battery without sacrificing useful range. Such compact batteries would not just save serious money for manufacturers and consumers. Our target is to improve efficiency even more,” Dlala says. “If

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Ford introduces new Fusion midsize sedan with new hybrid and Energi plug-in hybrid versions

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liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder gasoline engine, significantly downsized from the previous 2.5-liter Fusion will be produced at Ford’s Hermosillo, Mexico, manufacturing facility, soon adding production at AutoAlliance International Plant in Flat Rock, Mich. Fusion Hybrid also features an all-new 2.0-liter

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Ford Unveils Next-Generation Global Focus at NAIAS; Features New 2.0L DI Engine with Powershift Dual-Clutch Transmission for NA Market

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“People downsize cars, not expectations. Customers are increasingly making decisions to downsize driven by lifestyle and fuel economy. We’ve learned that when customers downsize, they still want the amenities they’ve become used to in larger vehicles.”

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Report: Stellantis Discusses Engine Plans

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We are growing capacity, adding capacity, for South America, the Middle East and Europe and Asia Pacific.” We could go and redo the Hemi, but we realized we needed to downsize the engine and bring up the power." & Stellantis is downsizing powertrains and has confirmed that the 3.0-liter liter Hemi V-8.

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