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No, infrastructure would be massively overloaded & overwhelmed. Indeed that is why the Emperor F. Castro consented to BHO POTUS opening in the first place. Most everything in Cuba is 60 to 75 years out of date. Cuba, for conceptual purposes needs to be made into a brand new & massive Disney World with room for growth. More to your political point, the democrat BHO POTUS administration, which included the demo candidate that some say should have won 2016 election, had 8 years (before) to do the deed. Instead they wait to the last second. Less we forget, it was JFK of the dotard demo attitude, who erected the barriers to start with? Come to think of it, JFK & LBJ got us nose deep into the Vietnam War fiasco! It's only now (40+ years later) that we are closed to paying ($$'s) off that cluster F---.
Tired of winning yet? LOOOL But that little island couldn't be less relevant to this thread, unless you want to see a Hyundai diesel in a 53 Chevy. Not going to see any Cuban-made diesel cars on the road here.
Needless to say, some say the 2 * 4 years demo administration's came very close to executing the diesels PVF demise.
So I hope you'd agree, advantage diesels !
I am pretty sure the diesel lineup actually expanded under the false promise of hope and change, but I don't see the current regime of alternative facts doing anything to bring it back
It's definitely time for trucks and SUVs to not be held to their own (less restrictive) standards, diesel or gasoline.
An even better ideal might be the diesel hybrids as seen in the more evolved European market - but I don't know the red tape involved with bringing those here. Diesel highway cruising with hybrid gridlock efficiency, seems to be the ideal.
For me, two issues would be a diesels & hybrids additional prices. I'm not sure of the cuurrent hybrid advantage, but I recall 20%. So (my) 2014 MB GLK 250 BT, 36-38 mpgs could be more like 43.2 - 45.6 mpg.
I'd hesitate, but 2017 Toyota Highlander/hybrid on fuelly.com are 21/29 mpg. Edmunds.com is very skeptical hybrids are worth it! It makes me wonder why EVs are a good buy, when one adds EV costs at twice the pmd:fuel price!? Oi
So indeed, IF it's a 38% current hybrid advantage, my T TDI's 36-38 mpg should be more like 49.68 - 52.44 mpg!!! Given similar B/E $$'s & time, it's pretty hard not to like! GLK 350 is more like 21 mpg PUG!
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Gasoline hybrids, EV's, natural gas, are & remain were niche markets & products @ best. Government subsidies don't come near to making EV them a reasonable alternative. Diesel PVF is @ 5% & has the capability for making a huge comeback! Used car sales (33 M) will probably increase and the prices should be over all lower. So I think the 2018 will present huge opportunities for really good new car deals.
I am with Fintail tail on this, with a wait-and-see attitude on what DJT POTUS wif ill do with CARB/EPA.
Please do not misconstrue, but I'm guessing that SoCA folks KNOW open spaces & cities great & small can burn down & in the proverbial New York minute!
But the CA wine country & other ares suffer greatly & MASSIVELY from environmental 40,000 ft policies and procedures ! Here is just one small ground & sea level example.
Electrical power was smashed and burned. Studies have also shown most CA fires are started by protected environmental items falling on transmission lines! Many to all cell phone towers servicing the area were rendered part to mostly out of commission. Cell phone use was severely choked off. So almost all took to recharging their BATTERY cellphones by starting up & idling their gasoline cars! So they want to put EV cars on home & area recharging? DAH ( if anybody can't see the implications here, don't call me, because I can't fix stupid) All of a sudden whole bunchs of people remembered why they used to have "LAND" lines.
As I have mentioned in others posts, Afghanistan is the country that has the rare (rare earth) minerals needed for the battery production! Even the CIA in unclassified documents indicate $10 T in overall mining assets. This does not include the yearly opium related production. So are the "environmental agendas" the real reasons behind/ for bleeding American (mostly) blood and treasure in the fight for Afghanistan!? Chinese companies have already negotiated mining, transportation, production & manufacturing contracts.
What does that mean?
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Both my wife & daughter got tapped to attend an industry meeting/conference in Nashville, TN. I jokingly suggested the trip in the 2014 MB GLK 250 BT. Ah.... no. Heading up to South Lake Tahoe is more like it?
And my diesel threw a little tantrum about 3 hours before I left, giving me a "Auxiliary Battery Malfunction" error. As one would expect, it's not an engine fault, rather a quirk in the W212 that doesn't appear to be rare.
Please give us the 411 on TDI’s we don’t have here in the USA! Let’s see what diesels some oems will bring to the USA market, 2019 & 2020!
We here on this board wish you a great trip!
Off topic of response to your thread & TDI’s: BUT It seems that both Lexus & Toyota, my old standby seems to lock up the reliability and durability badges, year after year.
I wish they made it easy like VW/Porsche to offer diesels in Lexus/Toyota mid size CUV’s, etc.
Around here, you name it, it exists as a diesel. Insanely diverse market here. I hope more will come back in a couple years, especially for MB,
The latest FL, TX, LA, CA, NV, PR (apologies, if I’ve left anywhere out) natural/made-made disasters continues to highlight the total bankruptcy & folly of going to a single FORCED & unwanted EV solution, rather than a series of solutions, like: %’s of diesels, etc. I mean really ladies and gentlemen, IF we are going to be totally overwhelmed with environmental pollution like wildfire products due to environmental policies, what are a few more n0x’s alledgedly maxed out by pvf diesels?
But @ the same time, battery factories like Tesla’s in Reno, NV, are popping up all over in China. I guess it’s time to monetize all that USA blood and treasure expended in Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc., Afghanistan for China to get the (rare earth EV) mining contracts!? What do we get? A good portion of Afghanistan’s yearly opium products?
I didn't see any new-to-me diesels today, but I did see an entire load of new VW commercial rigs with what seemed like every possible body configuration - weird double cab van things, van-pickup combos, etc. All diesel, no doubt.
I've seen some new style E-class already in the taxi fleet, definitely diesel. Also an interesting car to me, a prior E wagon, facelift model, LED lighting, Distronic/drivers assist (both expensive options in the US), but a debadged model with a cloth interior. This is likely a small 4 cylinder diesel, maybe even the 136hp model. Fun.
https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
Small to midsize sedan’s in the US PVF are less than 25%
I saw a new style E police car today. Probably a big diesel.
The policies of taking away diesel choices in USA markets are stupid in shortsightedness, for a host of reasons! Let’s start with one barrel of oil yielding 19 gal of gasoline & 13 gals of diesel. A 95-97% gasoline PVF uses far more barrels of oil than with a 50% to 60% diesel PVF.
The data you’ve presented (16 mpg/29 mpg) indicates diesel posts 81.25% better mpg than a gasoline hybrid.
Pandora’s box has indeed been opened. I’m not sure why anybody getting 29 mpg would want to go back to 16 mpg.( a.k.a. lose 45%)?
On the flipside, we've seen a whole lot of resistance going the other way. In other words, somebody getting 16 mpg gasoline normally has tremendous resistance going to a diesel getting 29 mpg.
The wife did not like the auto stop feature on a brand new gasoline MB sedan loaner for 7 days at all.
We've heard it saves 0.5 MPG, but that was when it first came out (2012, I think). Of course this is for a gas engine.
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