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Durn new tires. Mostly going 80 in a refrigerator box had nothing to do with it.
Bosch Knew VW Might Get Nailed For Diesel Cheating, Demanded Indemnification: Report (Jalopnik)
Renault sees diesel disappearing from most of its European cars (Reuters)
Bosch should blame that [non-permissible content removed]!?
As for Renault, they've been out of the US market for years, so I'm not sure how applicable their experience's are to the US market!? EV's will not reduce their "carbon " footprint". Despite all claims to the contrary. Someone that pays an electrical bill in the EU, can confirm if electricity is more than or less than my (penalty) rate of 24 cents per kWh. Just gasser products will not move the mpg football down the narrowing (mpg) road.
SteveR et al, has been saying ULSD was the allergic & N0x boogey man!
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba591
..."Problem: Ethanol Reduces Fuel Economy. Congress is debating raising fuel economy standards for vehicles to reduce energy consumption and air pollution. However, ethanol, or grain alcohol, produces 35 percent less energy per gallon than gasoline; thus the fuel economy of vehicles burning ethanol is lower. For instance, Consumer Reports tested a Chevrolet Tahoe running on E85 - a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. [See the figure.] Fuel economy fell from 21 miles per gallon (m.p.g.) to 15 m.p.g. on the highway and from 9 to 7 m.p.g. in the city. As a result, when E85 was $2.91 a gallon in August 2006, for example, it would have taken $3.99 of E85 to equal one gallon of gasoline.
In addition, poorer fuel economy means vehicles will use more gallons of fuel, which could negate any air quality gains due to fuel economy improvements."...
- See more at: http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba591#sthash.5Z1bK3wd.dpuf
... "In order to meet congressional mandates for ethanol in fuels, the Environmental Protection Agency has relaxed clean air regulations on ethanol production facilities, allowing 250 tons of emissions per year before regulations are triggered, whereas other industrial facilities violate clean air rules if their emissions top 100 tons per year - "...
..."Ethanol will increase ozone-forming NO x emissions in Wisconsin by twice as much as the emissions reduction achieved through vehicle inspection and maintenance programs, says the state's Department of Natural Resources. -"...
So burn more, over burning more!?
I guess I'm too used to my Subaru(s) - the average is based strictly on the trip meter; they do not reset independently.
Gerdes & Winger @ 81.17 mpg, over 8,233.5 miles beats his own record in 2015, 2015 Golf TDI. http://www.kbb.com/car-news/all-the-latest/vw-golf-tdi-sets-fuel-economy-record/2000012221/
These are also misleading. If car diesel hybrids existed & were set up for best mpg, my swag is it would do even far better than gas hybrids!
2015 MB GLK 350/250BT both meet US pollution specifications. . Fuelly.com lists 20.8 / 31.1 mpg. Mpgs are not even close. TDI/Blue Tec gets 49.51923 % better mpg. Torques/ performances are not even close, like model.
Maybe we can trade a VW in for a cow, or vice versa?
While CA is @ it they should cease pollutive non EV/wind powered port/ shipping activity!
Sounds like he pled to get a light sentence in exchange for spilling the beans.
No doubt diesel exhaust has an impact, but what amount of asthma causing emissions are from modern diesel passenger cars? I suspect it is infinitesimal.
2013 LX 570 2016 LS 460
I keep seeing conflicting reports - driving is up, gas usage is down. Who knows? Maybe it's the Leaf and Tesla owners doing all the driving.
btw, my wife who enjoys the diesel asthma trigger, also sticks to rice milk. Even though our backyard neighbor has a milk cow, my wife can't handle that either. Body chemistry is odd - at least she doesn't have to worry about peanuts on a plane and we've only had to use an Ana-kit once in 30 years (bee sting in the boonies of Quetico). Apparently we have thousands of dollar's worth of new and out of date Epipens in various drawers around the house - maybe I should unload them on the street and buy a few hundred Powerball tix.
There you go again ? What you are implying ( defacto) is the Leaf and the Tesla (EV's) are doing the majority of 3,000,000,000,000 miles!! Bias & bigotry are hard to shake eh?
But I provided links to the 2014 FARS (3.026 T, 2014) I also did the math for 3 T miles ( per article). That cheap craculator shows the (numerical) average yrly miles (per car) are down to about 10,000 + miles per year down from 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year (14,134 miles per licensed driver, check to see if you get same figures) Now you can do mileage per licensed driver. In addition, the average mpg is marginally up, so there is in theory less consumption. There would be easily 30% less consumption if up to 23% of the PVF were TDI's. Unless the head is in the sand, it's easy to see what the policy is: consume more, not less!
http://jalopnik.com/vw-made-its-defeat-device-more-potent-to-save-on-warran-1786442999
So to me, new & news would be approvals of "robust" fixes. If the articles are correct, the components should be extra robust; if only because there will be a 120,000 miles emmissions warranty
They told owners to bring in their cars for a reflash of the software to improve performance...
So for example in my specific case, right now that would be 240,000 miles. A known defect is the 2009 oem cat. It is not on any other MY. So again that will be replaced and if they are smart, more robust than the original. It's another way of saying that unless you know what the 2014 flash actually did to each and every model year, it remains unknown.
So while you insist on belaboring the non specific issues, which skill remain fluid, that is one reason why I decidedly to get the fixes. & emissions penalties ! VW, EPA, CARB & future buyers, (me) all have skin in the game. I'm also guaranteed bi annual pass under warranty. Again in my case, @ least 4 bi annual passes.
I've had way more emissions issues, costing far more on TLC gassers, than i will probably have on this one.
Instead, the plea said, they designed software to recognize when the car was undergoing a test and turn on emissions controls.
It's probably going to be very hard to determine who actually wrote the "defeat" code. A lot of finger pointing, "he said, she said".
"I knew that Volkswagen did not disclose the defeat device to U.S. regulators," Liang said in court. His lawyer, Daniel Nixon, said after the hearing that his client was "very remorseful."
Liang could face up to five years in prison but may get a much lighter sentence if the government finds he provided substantial assistance.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKCN11F234
I said then and say now: they ( industry, reg agencies) are hiding much much more, than is/are being exposed. SOME of those things have been documented in various articles posted on this thread.
Again the white elephant issue: the bigoted anti diesel EXTERMINATION agenda! This is NOT a conspiracy "theory" They want to "get rid" of 85% of 475,000 (3.47%) of the PVF & choke off the growth of the TDI segment!
Folk don't even know that in of a barrel of crude oil ( 42 gal)= 45 gal of petro products app 19 gal of RUG/PUG ( 45.2 %) & 12 gals of ULSD. (28.6%)
http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_home
Given 95 to 97% PVF consuming gas/ethanol, much more crude has to be processed, than if a greater % of the PVF were diesels. (29% to 60% diesel PVF)
As a premier oil supplier, the US could use less barrels of oil. THE US could then EXPORT more barrel, more RUG/PUG & ULSD!
IF the goals of buy back of 85% of affected TDI vehicles (475,000) are achieved, during this diesel "purge/extermination", they will get rid of more TDI's, than OEM's sell of EV's (US markets) in three years! IF diesels are 5%, that will mean MINUS - 2.933%. So IF 50% are diesel cars, that would = MINUS- 5.87% of diesel cars.
Vermonters are serious about the environment and are the second highest per capita purchasers of the illegal "clean diesel" vehicles in the U.S."
Vermont Rejects VW Settlement, Sues Audi, Porsche And VW (carcomplaints.com)
Sounds like they are really steamed about the little old lady sniffing the tailpipe commercial.
But, ...are Amazon, & competitors, et al. part of a larger (decrease in miles) trend!? http://www.wsj.com/articles/e-commerce-a-boon-for-rural-america-but-it-comes-with-a-price-1473615741
How many miles are the actual decrease ? ( 2014, 3,026 billions miles, 274.805 M PVF)
Don't know about diesel, but you could get turpentine and kerosene emulsion delivered by Sears back in the day. And the original Cummins diesel was made for Sears around 1920. (link)