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Delphi Earns Top Honors in Financial Times Global Automotive Awards

16 September 1999

Delphi Technology Earns Top Honors in Financial Times Global Automotive Awards Ceremony

    FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 16 -- A new technology from Delphi
Automotive Systems with the potential to address future vehicle
tailpipe emissions requirements won the Financial Times Global Automotive
award in the technology category.
    Delphi's new technology, a non-thermal plasma (NTP) exhaust aftertreatment
system, was developed by Delphi to reduce oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and
particulate emissions in lean-burn engines.  Lean-burn engines consist of
diesel and lean-spark ignition.  The Financial Times awards were presented
Wednesday in conjunction with the Frankfurt Motor Show.
    In accepting the award on behalf of Delphi Automotive Systems, Delphi
Energy & Engine Management Systems President Donald L. Runkle said: "We are
very excited about the potential for our revolutionary non-thermal exhaust
aftertreatment system, with its huge reduction in emissions, particularly for
NOx and particulates, which are the biggest challenges for diesel engines."
    "We believe this technology will answer future European tailpipe emissions
requirements, especially since this technology is applicable to not only
passenger and heavy-duty diesel engines, but also for gasoline engines,"
Runkle said.
    NTP devices produce energetic electrons that collide with background gas
molecules, producing radicals that chemically react with pollutants, forming
non-harmful gases.  Delphi has focused on a breakthrough reactor design that
is durable, compact and energy efficient.  In steady-state testing of a diesel
vehicle, the non-thermal plasma exhaust aftertreatment system has demonstrated
greater than 55 percent reduction in oxides of nitrogen emissions without the
need to add additional hydrocarbons to the exhaust stream as well as
demonstrating a significant reduction in particulates.  Delphi plans to be the
first to market a non-thermal plasma exhaust aftertreatment system.
    The award is presented to the technical development with the greatest
potential to improve the efficiency, safety, comfort, environmental
performance or cost structure of motor vehicles and their associated services.
The award can be given to a complete vehicle, a vehicle subsystem, a component
or a material.  Judges for the awards are experts in a variety of fields, such
as corporate finance, manufacturing technology and international motorsports.
    Delphi Automotive Systems, with headquarters in Troy, Mich., USA, is a
world leader in automotive component and systems technology.  Delphi's three
business sectors -- Dynamics & Propulsion; Safety, Thermal & Electrical
Architecture; and Electronics & Mobile Communications -- provide comprehensive
product solutions to complex customer needs.  Delphi has approximately 201,000
employees and operates 168 wholly owned manufacturing sites, 38 joint
ventures, 51 customer centers and sales offices, and 27 technical centers in
37 countries.  Regional headquarters are located in Paris, Tokyo and Sao
Paulo.  Delphi can be found on the Internet at http://www.delphiauto.com .