Meanwhile, diesel engines are generally more heat-efficient than gasoline ones, at about all speed ranges.
I used to have a Dasher diesel wagon. Going down the road in the winter, the heater put out good heat, but whenever you came to a stop light, it would go lukewarm.
There are literally twenty-odd advantages of the diesel over gas....I’ve heard this from various Germans. The problem I see is that they should have sat there developing some type of filter-cleaner back twenty years ago, and never did. Meanwhile, the EU on it’s own, has been pressing for standard changes every five years.
When you lay out the enormous value of the diesel cars owned by the German public and the child-like games of these metropolitan communities...it ought to be drawing tons of political anger by the public. Yet, we went through an entire election cycle where this never came up in Q and A.
Right now....used car handlers in Germany won’t even discuss trades or purchases with diesel cars unless you knock off one-third of the blue-book value. Even a two-year old BMW...has lost tons of value because of this entire mess triggered by 28 city governments within Germany.
I watched some news piece three months ago where some used car dealer was buying for substantially less, and walking across the border into Czech, and selling for the normal blue-book value. Other than the paperwork to introduce it into Czech, no one cared about this diesel business.
It’s just like the Fukushima business....Germans got all hyped up and triggered some massive shut of nuke plants on an immediate scale. No comprehension of consequences. Same attitude with Glyphosate and this national race to end the herbicide usage, with no substitute on the horizon.