Technical Paper
The Diesel SUV - Pushing Back Emission Frontiers
2007-01-17
2007-26-010
The current figure of Diesel market share in Europe of about 50% indicates a high market penetration of the HSDI Diesel engine. Due to increasing fuel prices and limited crude oil resources the worldwide demand for Diesel engines for the passenger car sector is increasing - even in typical gasoline markets like the united States. The key factors for the further success of the HSDI Diesel engine are the fulfillment of future worldwide emission legislation and that the production costs of the technologies necessary to do so, do not make it uncompetitive in comparison to the various gasoline engine concepts. Heavy SUVs with relatively small engines will therefore have to face the biggest challenge.
