50% Power Temptation: BMW Volkswagen Turbo Turbo


The turbocharger market is currently dominated by Honeywell Garrett, BorgWarner, and IHI. The three companies accounted for 88% of the market share.

At the moment, there are more and more cars with “T” or “Turbo” logos on the rear of the car. The recent listing of the MAGOTAN 2.0TSI has undoubtedly exposed the ambition that the general public hopes to rely on their own turbocharger technology to dominate the high-end car.

In order to find a balance between the engine's high output power and low exhaust emissions, German or American manufacturers tend to use turbocharger systems. Although not a novel technology, in the “2008 World Engine Award of the Year” presented by Germany last month, the turbocharged engines of BMW, Volkswagen/ Audi, Subaru and other manufacturers took advantage of 10 awards. 7 items. The "engine of the year" was won by the BMW 3.0L inline 6-cylinder twin turbocharged engine.

It can be seen that in the T-flag, whether it is BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volvo luxury car brands, or Saab, Volkswagen, Toyota, Nissan's civilian cars, more and more "T" cars are Emerged, with their own technology to fight.

Looking optimistic about the future of the T-car market

Manufacturers increase production plans

After the second world war, the BMW Turbo200 was the earliest turbocharged model, but the Porsche 911 Turbo made turbocharging technology famous. In China, Volkswagen is the pioneer of turbocharged models. In the past two years, the TSI series engines have been brought in. Fans have launched a "core" movement in China, and this 2.0TSI engine was recently introduced into China.

"The turbocharged engine is mainly operated by a turbocharger. It uses the inertial impulse of the exhaust gas emitted by the engine to propel the turbine in the turbine chamber, and drives the coaxial impeller to push the air sent from the air filter pipe to make it. Pressurization enters the cylinder. By increasing the amount of intake air by the compressed air, the increased oxygen content can promote full combustion of the fuel and reduce the emission of exhaust gas while increasing the engine power.” Mr. Zhu, a quality engineer of Dongfeng Cummins Corporation, told the financial weekly Reporter, “Under the existing technical conditions, the turbocharger is the only device that can increase the output power of the engine when the operating efficiency is unchanged. For example, in a commercial vehicle diesel engine, the turbocharger can be increased. 50% of the engine's power; the car’s turbocharged engine can achieve the same or higher power boost.”

Perhaps it is the huge temptation of this 50% increase in power that it has attracted car manufacturers and parts manufacturers generally show interest in this technology.

On June 3, Volkswagen showed the media the production status of its Dalian plant. Here, the Dalian engine plant has a production capacity of 500 units per day, and the supply of FAW-Volkswagen and Shanghai Volkswagen is about 8:2. The proportion of FAW-Volkswagen is heavy, and it is still the demand of MAGOTAN. According to FAW-Volkswagen, the sales target for the company is 90,000 vehicles this year, of which the 1.8TSI and 2.0TSI models will account for 90%, and the other entry-level 2.0MPI model will only produce 9,000 units, accounting for annual production. 10%. According to reports, with the continuous increase of production capacity in Dalian, the daily production capacity is expected to reach 1,200 units by 2010, and this proportion will also rise to 50% each, and will also provide 2.0TSI engines to the new generation of Audi A4 in the future. . The market information from Audi dealers in Beijing also shows that sales of the Audi A4 and Audi A6L T cars have now accounted for over 50% of Audi's sales.

Component manufacturers also continue to increase their confidence in market feedback. From the perspective of the international market, the turbocharger market is currently dominated by Honeywell Garrett, BorgWarner, and IHI. The three companies accounted for 88% of the market. Among them, IHI announced that it will establish a joint venture with Daimler and plans to produce 1 million turbochargers by 2011. Daimler hopes to become Europe's third-largest turbocharger supplier in 3-5 years.

Another component giant, BorgWarner, recently announced plans to expand turbocharger capacity, including factories in China. The president of BorgWarner China, Tan Yuesheng, said that the turbocharger capacity of the BorgWarner Ningbo plant will be at least tripled. He predicted that the annual demand for turbochargers in North America, Europe and Asia will increase by 40% in the next five years, from the current 19 million units to 27 million units. Among them, BorgWarner is an A-level supplier of Shanghai Volkswagen, FAW-Volkswagen, Jiangling, and Chongqing Cummins.

Technological progress improves "turbolag"

Luxury depot accelerates layout of T-car market

“At present, turbocharger technology is mainly to satisfy some models that are pursuing sports performance or pursuing economic efficiency.” Zhao Tao, product manager of BMW’s Corporate Affairs Group in Greater China, told the Money Weekly reporter, “Because almost all turbocharged engines are used. Car dealers will face the technical problem of 'turbo lag', which is why luxury cars are more cautious in introducing turbocharger technology."

The so-called “turbo-lag” is because the turbocharger has a certain speed requirement for starting the turbine and cannot be started when the engine is running at a low speed. Therefore, when the vehicle is started, there is often a slight power output and the reaction is slow. Less criticism. When the Money Weekly reporter had previously tested the Volvo S40 T5, Saab 9-3 and Audi A4 1.8T, he had deliberately experienced this “turbo lag” phenomenon, but found that the impact was not easily noticeable, which was about 1 second or even shorter. time.

Zhao Tao told the Money Weekly reporter that “it is precisely because of the technical trend of seeing that the engine is pressurized, so major manufacturers are also working on solving the technical problem of turbo lag. Now that BMW has high-precision injection system technology, The technical improvement of the turbine system was also implemented, so the technical solution to the problem of turbo lag was taken out, so that it is no longer necessary to worry about the possible impact of turbocharging on driving pleasure.” Due to fuel quality problems, BMW currently has models in the Chinese market. Turbocharging technology has not yet been promoted and it is expected that this technology will be introduced on the X6 and 3 Series this year and next. Zhao Tao said.

Volvo, who has always wanted to be on par with BMW and Audi, has already introduced the S40 T5 on its entry-level models. This 2.5T turbocharged engine was used in the high-end models of the S80 and XC90. Ge Yun, public relations manager for automotive technology and products at the public relations department of the Volkswagen Group (China), told the Money Weekly reporter that Volkswagen’s new 1.4-liter engine uses a supercharged and turbocharged “double boost” solution. This technology allows the engine to use a supercharged active drive to eliminate turbo hysteresis at low speeds, increase power comfort, and then switch to turbocharger at high engine speeds to overcome the increased fuel consumption caused by supercharging. Disadvantages. "Because of the use of two superchargers, the cost is relatively high," said Ge Ran.

In the high-end car market, the pursuit of technology is always the top priority - Audi will introduce the V10 twin turbocharged engine into the R8 in 2009, and the third generation XC70, which Volvo will market this fall, will introduce a turbocharger. Pressed XC70 T6 models, BMW plans to launch the new twin turbocharged M5 in 2011, Mercedes-Benz will also use more turbocharger technology in the AMG models. In the future car market, the competition of the T-character will be increasingly fierce.

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