“Sounds like my 14 y.o. Turbo Diesel m/t vehicles beat them like a drum.”
Diesel vehicles get about 30% better mileage because diesel fuel has about 30% more carbon, thereby giving better mileage. Indeed, that’s why the makers of most cursing sailboats have gone from gasoline auxiliary engines to diesels. More carbon = more power.
I’m not sure of 30%, mostly I’ve heard 10 to 20% with BioDiesel being less.
Part of the benefit of Diesels is a higher CR and no throttling losses.
Having a m/t allows easy coasting and even manual engine stopping in the City.
I recently bought a new Turbo gas vehicle similar to my brace of Turbo Diesels.
The Diesels win the real world FE test hands down.
The new veh does have AWD, so there is that.
So? How do sailboats curse?
Pirate language?
“Diesel vehicles get about 30% better mileage because diesel fuel has about 30% more carbon, thereby giving better mileage. Indeed, that’s why the makers of most cursing sailboats have gone from gasoline auxiliary engines to diesels. More carbon = more power.”
Jet airliners burn Jet A because its energy density per pound is much greater than gasoline. Jet turbines could be designed to burn gasoline. We do not do this due to weight penalty. The greater energy per pound of fuel is the criteria. We burn Jet A and not gasoline nor god forbid ethanol.
“... the makers of most cursing sailboats...”
Forget the scooter. As someone who has sailed I can tell you that there is much cursing involved. If I could find a boat that does the cursing for me it would be well worth it.