I read an article recently that said new diesels are 90 percent quieter than they were ten yeas ago, you no longer have the cold starting problems etc. I also read an article about a head to head comparison with a new VW diesel car and a hybrid and on a trip non-stop from Detroit to D.C., the diesel (not a hybrid diesel) got considerably better gas mileage than did the hybrid car.
I read an article recently that said new diesels are 90 percent quieter than they were ten yeas ago, you no longer have the cold starting problems etc.To: supercat I don't know much about a car's engine. But, I can't stand the smell behind a diesel car even if it's a Mercedes.
It's like being behind a bus.
75 posted on 12/03/2005 7:45:33 AM EST by AmericaUnite
The fuel is what smells; you smell the same odor at an airport from the jet fuel, and you smell the same thing, very strongly, if a mechanic works on your oil furnace and has some open raw fuel oil in a pan in your basement.So the diesel smell problem isn't the fault of the engine and, other than conceivably in some sort of catalytic converter, can't be cured by modification of the engine. The "diesel" smell can only be avoided by burning something that doesn't have the particular noxious substances in it which normally go into, and come out of, the diesel engine. For example, if you burn vegetable oil in a diesel the exhaust is said to smell like french fries.
That's why I like the dual-fuel concept - very little conventional diesel fuel oil is used. None at all, if you decided to use vegetable oil as the pilot charge . . .