Changes in the automotive industry is facing uncertain times, for enterprises, it is necessary to grasp the long-term opportunities for development, but also to meet current market demand. As the world's leading supplier of automotive technology, Bosch Group at the 60th meeting, the global automotive media exchange, said the traditional internal combustion engine to optimize the future, while also continue to strengthen investment in the field of electric vehicles to meet the electrification era.

    Bosch Diesel Systems executive vice president of R & D RolfLeonhard of "First Financial Daily" said that the future of personal mobility in the internal combustion engine will continue to play an important role. Within the next decade, the global market demand for internal combustion engine vehicles will rise by 40%. Therefore, the medium term, improve the efficiency of internal combustion engine is still essential.

    However, the Bosch Group automotive technology business, told reporters that President Dr. BerndBohr the long run, regardless of how to improve the fuel efficiency of vehicles, the automotive industry's future still belongs to electric cars.

    Although electric cars are the future of the automotive industry, but that does not mean there is no internal combustion engine has room for improvement. On the contrary, RolfLeonhard said internal combustion engine vehicle fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions the future can be reduced to half the average current.

    In 2009, the European average carbon dioxide emissions of passenger cars was 146 grams per kilometer. The European Commission has set a target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2015, 11%, reduced to 130 grams per kilometer. 2020, to further reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 95 grams per kilometer, which is less than the 2009 level of 35%. By 2025, emissions of carbon dioxide 70 grams per kilometer, the equivalent of 3 liters of gasoline per hundred kilometers, more than half the current level is lower.

    According to Bosch forecasts, by 2020, passenger car sales to 104 million. Among them, 3,000,000 for the pure electric car or plug-in electric vehicles, six million for the hybrid. Thus, by 2020, the market is still over 100 million internal combustion engine vehicle sales.

    As early as 2009, Bosch has said, whether gasoline or diesel engine, internal combustion engine fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced by 30%. The hybrid system will be able to build on another 10%. Supplemented by improvements in the car, including the lightweight, low-resistance tires and drag reduction technology, the future internal combustion engine fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced to half the average current.

    For the internal combustion engine, the turbo is smaller and the trend of future development. From the end of this year, Bosch will have a new turbo system into production, the 2015 can produce 100 million units of high-performance turbocharger.

    In the long run, in order to rid itself of dependence on oil resources, the automotive industry's future belongs to electric cars. The popularity of electric vehicles for the future, it is not only the technology and infrastructure, cost control is also an indispensable factor.

    From a technical point of view, the realization of hybrid electric vehicle is much simpler than that, but the electric cars to improve the car's cost. Bosch expects that by 2020, electric cars cost about the high cost of internal combustion engine vehicle than about 45%.

    Among them, an important part of the cost of electric cars from the battery. SBLiMotive 2015, the price per kilowatt-hour battery for 350 euros, will fall in 2020 to 250 euros. Nevertheless, 6,000 euros to 12,000 euros of the price, making the future of battery electric vehicles will remain a major cost.

    Consumer acceptance of electric vehicles is that the determinants of price. Therefore, further development and production of electric drive system components is one of the most important issue is how to reduce costs.

    In addition, Bosch believes that electric cars to succeed, the automobile industry must also be standardized in all aspects of the design elements of success, rather than rival each other distinction. For example, the high-pressure charging cable and inverter connector between the plug, although very simple, but all car manufacturers are small-scale production, making it almost cost the semiconductor and electronic controller as high, the cost savings is very big.