SECTOR FOCUS: AUTOMOTIVE PCMO
The challenges and opportunities facing modern passenger car engine lubricants
The demand for passenger cars continues to grow in every continent across the world. Colin Morton, Business Manager at The Lubrizol Corporation, discusses the challenges and opportunities which exist in the move to higher performance, lower viscosity, fuel efficient lubricants.
‘Efficiency, reliability and wellness’ are three fundamental drivers shaping changes to legislation and consumer preferences in the passenger car automotive market. Greater efficiency centres on minimising our environmental impact as well as creating more efficient products, processes and services. Increased reliability revolves around the importance of maximising the useful life of equipment, minimising repair and replacement, as well as ensuring equipment operates as intended throughout its lifetime. Finally, increased wellness is driven by the need to improve the environment in which people live, minimising wastage and resource usage, as well as enabling access to products and services which improve lives.
All of the above are driving the need to develop new services, equipment, lubricants and fuels within our market—today and in the years to come.
By 2022, the vehicle parc for passenger cars is predicted to grow dramatically. This dramatic growth is set to coincide with the introduction of new and more stringent emissions and CO2
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particular emphasis on Europe, India and China. In India, for example, all new passenger cars from April 2020 will have to conform to the Bharat Stage VI emission standard, with 80% reduced sulphur limits compared to the existing Bharat Stage IV standard introduced back in 2017.
One implication of the drive to a cleaner and more environmentally-friendly world is the requirement for vehicles to be fitted with advanced levels of emissions controls—commonly regarded as integral to achieving ever more stringent emissions targets. As such, an overwhelming majority of the vehicles added to the global passenger car parc by 2022 are forecast to be fitted with advanced emissions control systems.
At the same time, the drive for greater efficiency and lower emissions is leading to a growth in the electrification of passenger cars, whether battery electric vehicles (BEV) without an internal combustion engine (ICE), or hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) including mild, full, plug-in and ranger extender alternatives, each working in conjunction with an ICE.
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