Abstract
Given the intensifying debate about climate change and the need for further reductions in fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, the market outlook for diesel and gasoline direct-injection systems has never been better.
The improvement in diesel engine design has significantly reduced exhaust emission while enhancing vehicle performance capabilities. Indeed, the accent in Europe has been on CO2 reduction and, because of its higher thermal efficiency, diesel offers distinct fuel saving advantages. This, coupled with the fact that many European countries have fuel taxation strategies which benefit diesel, has resulted in a dramatic growth of diesel-engined vehicles at the expense of gasoline. But changing consumer opinions and perceptions of diesels in North America will take some time.
Meanwhile, gasoline direct injection (GDI) continues to be a weapon in the technology armoury of the OEMs in their fight to reduce CO2. Manufacturers believe that homogeneous applications of GDI will be dominant over the next five years and will become more closely associated with boosting (turbo or supercharged) to achieve high levels of engine capacity downsizing.
This fourth edition of the fuel injection report reviews the key market drivers for fuel injection systems, and provides updated market analysis. just-auto' s product fitment forecasts predict the market by volume, and by major car-producing region for gasoline direct-injection systems from 2003 through 2013.
Recent innovations in this sector are discussed, and we provide brief profiles of the major manufacturers, namely Bosch, Delphi, Denso and Siemens VDO. Throughout the report we have included a number of exclusive interviews with key executives, namely:
- Dr Steffen Berns, executive vice president, Engineering Gasoline Systems, Bosch and Rolf Leonhard, executive vice president, Engineering Diesel Systems, Bosch.
- Osamu Fukasawa, senior manager, Powertrain Management Systems Engineering department, Denso Corp and Hitoshi Tomishima, chief engineer, Diesel Injection Engineering department, Denso Corp and;
- Dr Sebastian Schilling, engineering director, Europe, Gasoline EMS & Powertrain Products, Delphi, and Philippe Bercher, deputy director, Diesel Engineering, Delphi.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The market
- Market trends
- Market players
- Bosch
- Q&A with Bosch
- Delphi
- Q&A with Delphi
- Denso
- Q&A with Denso Corp
- Siemens VDO Automotive
- Emerging markets
- China
- Indi
- Romania
- Market shares
- Gasoline direction injection market forecasts
Chapter 3 Technical review
- Defining the elements
- Direct injection
- Diesel common-rail systems
- Gasoline direct injection
- Chapter 4 Manufacturers
- Bosch
- Delphi
- Denso
- Siemens VDO Automotive
List of figures
- Figure 1: European market shares for common-rail systems, 2006 (% of volume)
- Figure 2: Global market shares for injection pumps (all types) for diesel cars and trucks (excluding agricultural and construction vehicles), 2006 (% of volume)
- Figure 3: Global market shares for fuel pumps for gasoline engines, 2006 (% of volume)
- Figure 4: Global market shares for injectors for gasoline engines, 2006 (% of volume)
- Figure 5: European market shares for injectors for gasoline and diesel engines, 2006 (% of volume)
- Figure 6: Bosch' s D-Jetronic system laid the foundations for modern gasoline engines
- Figure 7: Bosch' s second generation of gasoline direct injection: DI-Motronic system
List of tables
- Table 1: Gasoline direct injection market installation fitment to all passenger cars and light vehicles in Western Europe, North America and Japan 2003-2013 (%)
- Table 2: Gasoline direct injection market volume for all passenger cars and light vehicles in Western Europe, North America and Japan, 2003-2013 (‘000s units)
- Table 3: Bosch' s common-rail injection system: development milestones
- Table 4: Denso' s common-rail sales performance, 2000-2008 (JPYm, % and ‘000s)
