In 2005, SEMA predicted diesel market share of new-vehicle sales would increase to 15 percent by 2014.
Bosch, already a major player in gasoline and diesel injection and electronics, parallels that with 15 percent by 2015. Further out, engineering and management honchos from other suppliers and car companies say by 2020 it will be 20 percent diesel and 10 percent hybrids; no split on the internal-combustion component of the hybrids was given. Previous U.S.-market diesel sales-leader Volkswagen expects close to a third of its U.S. sales to be diesel within a decade, again without comment on how many of those might be diesel/electric hybrids.