>>>I guess that internal combustion will be in a lot of garages for a while yet. It’s a good thing because coal is so dirty.<<<
There is a little drity secret that a European turbocharged diesel engines outperforms both hybrid and electric cars in terms or enviromental footprint for 10 years and counting. It also outperformes gas engines in terms of torque and horsepower in similiar displacement. They aren’t noisy or smoky anymore.
What about a 3 liter diesel BMW 7-er?
Full-size sports sedan, inline 6, 330 horsepower, accelerates in 6 seconds 0-60, cruising at 170 mp/h on Autobahn.
Twice better fuel/mileage than Prius.
All these “green” madness on the road is simply unbelievable in green Europe.
There is no Prius, Volt etc on their markets.
Why won’t bring hi-end diesels here?
Because the government won't let them.
Excellent question.
BTW, why not hybridize a hi-tech diesel car?
Anyone purchasing and driving a diesel vehicle should have to sit behind and idling one in traffic for thirty minutes a day.
I am so over all these farm punks and their chipped up, fartpiped Rams, F350s, and Silverados with stock turbos blowing a cloud of lingering particulates every time they leave an intersection.
Diesels are for heavy duty lawn mowers, construction equipment, tractors and semi trucks. Come out with your high end oil burners and try on my DOHC, turbocharged, intercoooled, direct injected GASOLINE powered ride sometime. Just please let me have the lane opposite your exhaust outlet.
Supposedly just about every Audi model will have a diesel engine available here in the U.S. over the course of the next couple years. The 3.0 TDI has been available in the Q7 for some time. It’s available in the ‘14 A8L right now.
I agree so much with this. In EMEA, the Smart car has or had a 0.75 liter turbodiesel that could deliver 60-70 MPG. Now we’re talkin’. Of course, the EPA won’t let them use that engine in the US...