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Given #2 ULSD fuel advantages over unleaded regular/premium of 20-40%; why use more more when less will do? The regulatory agencies truly understand this and will be tempted to tax those that use less (if when the population grows; when more will do as Gagrice has pointed out. Hopefully the per mile levy will NEVER be adopted. This was EASY to do with SUV's i.e., more fuel use=more taxes (per mile driven. They FEAR the reverse with diesel!!!
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strange and amusing.
Certainly one but not the other.
Ricardo announces Tier 2 Bin 2 SULEV Diesel
Since it was shown in Detroit I can only assume that it's one of the US manufacturers.
"The equipment that will be moving to other parts of the world will still be meeting U.S. standards and may be cleaner than what they've got now," said Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board. "It's a little bit of a trickle-down effect, but it's better than not doing anything at all.
"Take our dirty exhaust please, and throw away your even DIRTIER equipment"
IAA In Frankfurt
62.8 mpg (4.5 l/100 km) fuel consumption and 119 g/km CO2: New Golf BlueMotion sets environmentally-friendly benchmarks in the compact class.
Lucky Europe gets all the good cars (broken record)
But why has no car manufacturer offered a "veggie oil conversion kit" straight from the factory?
Why doesn't MB or VW offer a veggie option kit from the factory?
Posluszny says his gas mileage hasn't changed, and he estimated his total fuel cost savings at $1,885 in May of this year. In addition to lower costs, burning vegetable oil produces fewer pollutants than gasoline or diesel.
Posluszny bought a Jeep Liberty to convert, and he is hoping to finish the second vehicle before he returns to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst this September.
``Originally, I saw a poster that said it was possible,'' said Posluszny, who as a freshman at UMass-Amherst, where he studies building materials and wood technology, first learned about converting diesel engines to run on vegetable oil.
Want to make the Toyota Prius seem terribly inefficient and wasteful? Then you’ll need one of these. This is the Loremo L1, a prototype diesel car from Germany that manages an incredible 188mpg.
First shown as a concept at the 2006 Geneva motor show, the Loremo is now a fully running prototype, and will be unveiled at the Frankfurt motor show in September.
It will be available with two engines; a two-cylinder 20bhp turbodiesel ‘LS’ or a three-cylinder 50bhp ‘GT’ turbodiesel, which ‘only’ returns 105mpg.
The Loremo manages this feat through its super-lightweight construction - the standard car weighing just 450kg – and ultra-low drag. Naturally emissions are as low as the fuel economy is high, at under 50g/km of CO2.
The LS hits 62mph in 20sec and tops out at 99mph, the GT 9sec and 137mph. Both cars have five-speed manual gearboxes.
The engine sits in the middle of the car, powering the rear wheels. This means that the rear seats, which are rear-facing, are suitable only for children. Those seats are accessed via the boot, but it’s the way you get into the front of the car that will most surprise. The entire front section of the car hinges forward, dashboard included, and you climb aboard.
Standard kit includes airbags, air-con, sat-nav a radio and MP3 stereo.
The Loremo is in the running for the multi-million dollar Automotive X-Prize, which is for the firm that can create the first commercially viable car capable of over 100mpg. Loremo reckons that the car will start at around €11,000 which is £7500. We can’t wait to try one.
I guess I have to email that bunch again to get to the truth.
With WVO you have to keep the oil warm or you get clogging problems. It is for the hobbyist. There is a real good savings to be had if you are willing to hang out behind KFC and McDOnalds.
I guess I have to email that bunch again to get to the truth."...
I just got to shake my head. :shades: You might anymore need a computer program to get a "REAL" estimate, and you just load the variables to crank out a reasonable (or unreasonable) estimate. Things like weight of the driver, passenger weight, T/P, speed, A/C on/off etc. etc. Most of the stuff is already known. Indeed all this is in the the mpg RANGE stated on a new car sticker.!!!?? Your answer that they just use a "formula" to get the new figures, just reinforces in my own mind how unnecessary this all has become or evolved. Job security takes on a very bizarre turn.
I should just let it slide. As soon as Congress realizes what a waste of money the EPA has become, maybe they will cut their funding and spend it on some other stupid agency.
I mean for lack of bigger injectors and a 6 speed (over a 5 speed) manual, I would more normally get 52 when 50 mpg would do!
So for our Congress to put ANY brain cells toward legislating 35 mpg standards is completely and utterly ludicrious!
Cut the oil consumption & GHG NOW, fine tune the emissions in a timely manner.
Proof/evidence is not far off. When was the last time a NEW refinery was built on US soil? Is less than 3% of diesel and alternative fuel use populations a reasonable long term goal? "Other than light sweet crude" costs 30-40% less than light sweet crude.
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To the barricades!
Actually folks with attitudes like that ' need to come OFF the barricades;dismantle the barricades. Let the oem's offer diesel models.
Actually interesting that the "hated SUV's" (poster child of gasser indulgence!?) are at 12% of the population!
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As every band aid fails....
Tick tock.
BMW"S attempt for 2008
DEER alternatives
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I didn't think GM was going to bother with the light diesel market. Guess I was wrong.
Why get a V8 Toyota Tundra that might get (engine cut off) downhill barreling in neutral: 20 mpg!!?? (for my .02cents a great truck)
Want literally almost run away acceptance? Drop the diesel premium! (to as low as par with the gasser), while simultaneously cutting back the same or even more on the gasser production.
Also let them drop or cut back those less than profitable small car models the government makes them produce! The ones they keep let em populate them with diesel engines! GM has had great successes in the Corvette, Cadillac, Buick, to name a few! They just need a more across the board increases in successes.
I truly think this is what the anti suv forces are loathed to see happen. Their smoky back room motto might be: Less than 3% of the vehicle fleet is diesel and DYING!
30 mpg can be better than some so called economy boxes!
One high quality diesel SUV should hold me for the rest of my driving days.
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Nissan this month said it developed methods to treat diesel exhaust and meet standards in California and other U.S. states that now bar them because of emissions. Europe, the largest market for diesel autos, will adopt rules closer to California's in 2012, making that the time to introduce such vehicles in the U.S., Nissan's Larry Dominique said in an interview.
``That's when it becomes more compelling, in terms of cost, to bring diesel to the U.S.,'' he said in San Diego yesterday.
Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker, is the latest to add diesel to technologies expected to help meet tougher U.S. fuel-economy and environmental rules. Honda Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and Volkswagen AG have said they'll sell diesels clean enough for California, which has the world's toughest emissions standards.
California bars current diesels because they emit too much particulate matter, or soot, and gases linked to lung and heart disease. Diesel vehicles rival sales of gasoline models in Europe, where the fuel costs less, offers about a 30 percent fuel-economy boost and helps meet regional restrictions on carbon-dioxide emissions.
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Large Pickups and SUVs likely will have to be in the 25-28 mpg range. Diesel is just about the only solution.
Midsized pickups/BOF SUVs likely will have to be in the 30-35 mpg range.
Gagrice's dream vehicle is just over the horizon IMHO.
Diesel in light-duty is the only way that those vehicles can remain viable for non-commercial use in my opinion.
EPA regs: no burden anymore
Cummins’ intense focus on research and development turned the once-foreboding EPA regulations into a competitive advantage, as the manufacturer has frequently beaten its competitors to market with technological advancements, said Jay Gore, director of Purdue University’s Energy Center at Discovery Park.
For the first half of 2007, Cummins’ sales were up 11.6 percent and its profits rose 11 percent over the same period a year ago.
Making Cummins’ 2007 performance even more impressive, Foster said, is that it comes in a year when the heavy-duty diesel-engine market—Cummins’ oldschool bread and butter—is down 40 percent.
If Cummins meets its 2007 projections, it would mark the fourth consecutive year of record sales and profits. Cummins is already predicting growing sales in 2008 and 2009.
Engine sales—accounting for 53 percent of revenue—is the biggest driver motoring Cummins from 296th to 221st on Forbes Magazine Fortune 500 list. But Cummins’ power generation, components and distribution sectors are also growing.
“Cummins has become a leader in diesel due to some smart foresight, and wise investments into future development of the technology,” Gore said.
Cummins put sizable investment into manufacturing the 350-horsepower engines for the Dodge Ram pickup. About 170,000 will be made at the Walesboro plant just south of Columbus this year. That’s up from 120,000 in 2003 despite a drop in pickup trucks sold nationwide. Dodge is now the company’s single biggest client.
Not only are Cummins’ engines for the Dodge Ram meeting 2007 EPA regulations, they are already meeting 2010 regulations. Cummins is the only engine maker to do so.
Line here: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/08/toyota-enhancin.html#more
PZEV cars
That list is getting longer every year !!! Hurray !!!
Meet me over here:
How will global warming concerns change the way we drive?
Just google their web site.
http://www.corning.com/environmentaltechnologies/
They have probably more than you REALLY want to know about the filtration section!
I've had four diesels and I say there is nothing better in the high mountains than a diesel.
Indeed a twin turbo diesel rig would be my ideal! The bad news of course: it is not commonly available!
In addition, I had just read an article on the upcoming new 2008 gasser side. In effect, the old midsized cars such as V6 Honda Accord and Toyota Camry will REALLY become FULL sized cars. Probably as a consequence, fuel mileage will not increase, but be more like 19/28 or similar to a 2001 Corvette Z06 V8. The good/bad news will probably be diesel becomes more sensical and diesels might get less mpg than it is capable.