Bosch plans to increase sales of its common rail diesel direct injection technology by nearly one-fifth to more than 8m systems in 2007 (from 6.8m last year).
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“With common-rail technology and exhaust-gas treatment, we will also be able to comply with the future Euro 5 and Euro 6 exhaust emission limits,” said Ulrich Dohle, president of the Bosch Diesel Systems division.
Bosch is celebrating 10 years since it first put a common rail system for passenger cars on the market. The first vehicles to feature the technology were the Alfa Romeo 156 JTD and the Mercedes-Benz 220 CDI.
Bosch manufactures common-rail technology at 15 sites in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
While diesel is well established in Europe it is not popular in the US or Asia. Bosch said that it is forecasting diesel sales in the US to increase from around 6% of the market to 15% by 2015. It says that common rail technology will help diesels meet California’s emissions limits and help fuel demand for diesel cars.
In Asia the company expects sales of 100,000 common-rail systems in both India and China. By 2013, it is likely that there will be some 1.3m such systems in each of these countries. At present, just one-fifth of the company’s total production of high-pressure injection systems is for the markets in Asia and the Americas, but by 2015 this figure will be nearly 50%.
