Proposed legislation to increase fuel economy currently making its way through Congress could benefit sales of turbochargers to the U.S. automotive industry, a supplier executive says.
Nevertheless, Olivier Rabiller, Honeywell International Inc.’s vice president-customer management, passenger vehicles, says he sympathizes with cash-strapped domestic auto makers, which oppose a combined car/truck average fuel economy of 35 mpg (6.7 L/100 km) by 2020.
“It speaks to their profitability, and the U.S. car makers are not in a good position right now,” Rabiller tells Ward’s following a presentation to the Automotive Press Assn. here on Thursday.
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