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

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Automakers are turning to downsized turbocharged engines to satisfy more stringent global fuel economy and emission regulations and customer demand for better-performing vehicles. In addition to improving fuel efficiency, downsized turbocharged engines also reduce harmful exhaust emissions. million turbocharged vehicles by 2019.

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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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Honeywell’s Transportation Systems Forecast projects that turbocharged vehicles will acount for 48% of annual global sales by 2021, up 9 percentage points from 2016. The global turbo business is expected to reach almost $12 billion in industry sales in 2021. The current average engine size is a 3.0-liter liter six-cylinder.

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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. ICE sales have to come down for BEV sales to come up,” Brinley says. With all that in mind, the company is developing its next generation of batteries.

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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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The new Focus will be one of up to 10 unique models to be built from Ford’s new global C-car platform, which is expected to generate total sales in all regions of 2 million units annually by 2012—a doubling Ford’s 2008 C-car volumes. “People downsize cars, not expectations.

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Report: Stellantis Discusses Engine Plans

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Stellantis wants to have 75 EVs on sale globally by the end of the decade.& 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." liter Hemi V-8.

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