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The latest up-and-coming craze in Europe is twin-charged diesel engines.
Tiny diesels that have both a turbocharger and a supercharger for optimal all-rev performance. Exceptional mileage, exceptional torque, minimal emissions, and no expensive, highly-polluting batteries to purchase or replace.
The mileage of a 1.0L diesel with the power of a decent V6.
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Originally posted by sigma:
The latest up-and-coming craze in Europe is twin-charged diesel engines.
Tiny diesels that have both a turbocharger and a supercharger for optimal all-rev performance. Exceptional mileage, exceptional torque, minimal emissions, and no expensive, highly-polluting batteries to purchase or replace.
The mileage of a 1.0L diesel with the power of a decent V6.
I think I'd line up for one of those!
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Originally posted by Andy W.:
Why not a diesel hybrid? The best of both worlds.
-Andy
This isn't a diesel hybrid, but it's a 128 mpg diesel you can build yourself. (look through all the plans. Cool stuff. I bought the Tri-Magnum plans back in '84 when I was 12! Still have the plans, and one day I WILL build it!)
The XR3 WILL be a diesel/electric hybrid you can build. He's estimating up to 125 mpg on straight diesel, and up to 225 mpg as a hybrid. I'm sure I'll be ordering a set of these plans once they're ready.
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glad to see Ford is about 5 years behind on this revelation.
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Originally posted by baco99:
glad to see Ford is about 5 years behind on this revelation.
It isn't Ford really, it is US laws. Restricting particulate emissions while not having low sulfur diesel basically made it impossible to sell diesel cars here.
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Originally posted by BloodyTomFlint:
Originally posted by baco99:
glad to see Ford is about 5 years behind on this revelation.
It isn't Ford really, it is US laws. Restricting particulate emissions while not having low sulfur diesel basically made it impossible to sell diesel cars here.
to include the US isn't as open to diesels as the Europeans are.
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Yup. Remember, most Americans equate diesels with 1970s family trucksters and 18-wheelers. Big, smoky, and smelly.
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Originally posted by Jeb Hoge:
Big, smoky, and smelly.
I have something else thats commonly described like that
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Originally posted by RTStabler51:
Originally posted by Jeb Hoge:
Big, smoky, and smelly.
I have something else thats commonly described like that
Your mom?
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You can't just have the US, (especially the US) switch over to diesel to ease fuel prices. Think of it this way, market forces would kick in. With demand for Petrol down, Diesel goes up, and if your entire population of 300 million (half of them being large do nothing SUVS and trucks) started using diesel, the demand would increase SUBSTANTIALLY, and from there you're stuck with $3 or $4 per gallon of diesel. Not only does that happen in the long run, but also diesel emmissions are HORRIBLE. If you're ever stuck in Highway traffic around some trucks, you know what I mean. They're noisy, they're dirty, and they create SO MUCH CONGESTION around you. You speed up global warming that way, and the air gets dirtier. If you want my honest opinion, the world should get together to develop a Lithium Ion / Hydrogen / Synthetic Ethanol car. It's viable to produce ethanol from corn if for example you recreate the conditions and that could be done anywhere (Alaska, Antartica, the middle of the ocean on a boat, etc.) Have a completely new design of car that will have for example integrated solar panels on the body, wind generators or something extra to help charge a large battery, combine that with some sort of intense chemical reacting engine (uranium) and there's your super car that's cheap to run.
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