BOSCH SETS RECORD IN DIESEL TECHNOLOGY
04 December 2005 - Bosch

100 million Common-Rail injectors produced for passenger cars

. Production in seven locations on three continents

· Injection engineering as key to high efficiency and great
pollution reduction

· Economy potential of modern diesel engines without comparison

· German Future Award for piezo direct injection

The 100 millionth Common-Rail injector for passenger car
diesel engines has recently come off the Bosch assembly
lines. This production output documents the outstanding success of the
Common-Rail system which was launched by Bosch in 1997. Some
23 million passenger cars have been fitted with it until this day. In
2005, Bosch produces some 26 million Common-Rail injectors for
passenger car engines in seven locations on three continents. The
third generation of the Common-Rail system with innovative piezo-inline
injectors in currently manufactured at the Bosch plant in Bamberg/
Germany as well as in two other European locations. This year''s
Deutsche Zukunftspreis, the German Future Award of the President
of the Federal Republic of Germany, was recently jointly presented to
researchers and developers of Bosch and Siemens VDO for the utilization
of piezo technology.

Diesel engines are enjoying a steadily increasing market share, first
and foremost in Europe, due to their great fuel economy and low
pollution. And for good reasons, since vehicles with diesel engines
consume about 30 percent less fuel than comparable vehicles with a
gasoline engine, as has been confirmed by the German Federal agency for
vehicles in 2004, the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt. In other words: if drivers of
diesel-powered vehicles converted to gasoline-powered vehicles with the
same performance, they would have to live with a 50 percent higher fuel
consumption - suffering not only the additional expense but also a
shorter mileage with every tank full of fuel.

Diesel engines offer great economy potential in various ways: not only
is the fuel economy greater, prices for fuel in Europe are generally
under those for gasoline. And with increasing fuel prices, the diesel''s
economy will become even more important in the future. At present, almost
one out of two passenger cars newly registered in Europe is powered by a
diesel engine. If every car were equipped with a diesel engine, more than
5 billion liters of fuel could be saved in Germany alone - a quantity
which would allow an average diesel-powered passenger car to cover a
distance of about 94 billion kilometers, which is equal to 300 times the
distance from the earth to the sun and back. And our environment would
also benefit, since diesel engines emit about 25 percent less of the
green-house gas carbon dioxide than comparable conventional gasoline
engines. Thus diesel engines are not only demonstrating their great
economy but are also outstanding when it comes to being low pollutant.
The great fuel economy is furthermore providing a sparing use of
resources such a fossil energies. And thanks to its fabulous torque even
at low speed, a modern diesel engine is guaranteed to give you the most
exciting driving experience.

The Bosch Group is a leading global manufacturer of automotive and
industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology. In fiscal
2004, some 242 000 associates generated sales of 40 billion euros. Set up
in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as ''Workshop for
Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering,'' the Bosch Group today
comprises a manufacturing, sales, and after-sales service network of some
260 subsidiaries and more than 10 000 service centers in over 130
countries.

The special ownership structure of the Bosch Group guarantees its
financial independence and entrepreneurial freedom. It makes it possible
for the company to undertake significant up-front investments in the
safeguarding of its future, as well as to do justice to its social
responsibility in a manner reflective of the spirit and will of its
founder. 92 % of the shares of Robert Bosch GmbH are held by the
charitable foundation Robert Bosch Stiftung. The entrepreneurial
ownership functions are carried out by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG.

Additional information can be accessed at www.bosch.com.

www.bosch-presse.de

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