Turbochargers set to double in US over next 5 years

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As the public portion of the Paris Motor Show gets under way this week, attendees will no doubt see dozens of vehicles with turbocharged engines. In Europe, such technology is common. Two out of every three cars on the road have turbochargers under their hoods.

That's not the case in the United States, where turbochargers have traditionally been a fringe technology. But that's changing, faster than many experts anticipated.

North America is the second-fastest-growing market for turbochargers, and the market is expected to grow by double digits in each of the next five years, according to a forecast released by global supplier Honeywell. By 2019, the company expects turbochargers to be on 38 percent of new vehicles in North America.

Once found only on larger, heavier sedans and high-performance vehicles, automakers are implementing the technology on a wide array of vehicles as they seek fuel-efficiency gains in response to federal mandates. Today, they can be found on vehicles as big as the BMW 7 Series and Ram 1500 truck and as small as the Chevy Sonic and Fiat 500.

"We've been talking about this expected trend for a number of years, and now it's happening," says Peter Hill, senior marketing director at Honeywell Turbo. "It's real, and it's playing out. We're seeing more and more automakers planning turbocharged powertrains."Continue reading Turbochargers set to double in US over next 5 years

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