Turbocharged petrols to play a bigger role
Turbocharged petrol engines are the norm these days globally. Almost every new car aiming to deliver on the performance front has a turbocharger bolted on.
All these applications have one basic reason - a turbocharger is compact and a better solution over higher engine displacement to improve performance by a certain degree.
In addition to a weight advantage and a performance edge, turbocharging improves fuel efficiency too as a smaller capacity engine burns lesser fuel, while the exhaust gases making the turbos spool are doing their extra bit.
A turbocharger's fuel efficiency and performance benefit is just about trickling into India in the past few years though. Europe has been turbocharging small capacity petrol engines extensively for the better part of the decade, some examples being Volkswagen's TSI units, Ford's EcoBoost range and Fiat's TwinAir setup. Every manufacturer either has one or wants one. According to Honeywell, 40 percent of all petrol engines sold in Europe are now turbocharged.
