Posted on 02/28/2018 8:58:33 AM PST by Red Badger
The automaker recently settled a lawsuit over emissions cheating
Fiat Chrysler has become the latest automaker to turn its back on diesel-powered engines as more of the industry pivots to battery-electric vehicles. According to the Financial Times, the Italian-American carmaker will end production of its diesel passenger vehicles by 2022.
FCA, which manufacturers Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Chrysler, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, and Fiat, will unveil its four-year plan to phase out diesel vehicles on June 1st, the Times says. A spokesperson declined to comment. "Diesel has been falling out of favor"
Diesel has long been promoted by governments and carmakers as a way to reduce CO2 emissions. But the fuel source has been falling out of favor since it was discovered that Volkswagen installed emissions-test cheating software in 11 million of its diesel vehicles.
Other automakers, FCA included, have been accused of manufacturing cars that don’t comply with clean air rules. FCA recently reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to settle its emissions cheating lawsuit. As part of the deal, the automaker will recall 104,000 vehicles and pay a substantial but unspecified civil penalty.
Other automakers are dropping diesel, too. Porsche has said it will stop the production of cars with diesel engines, and Toyota is trending away from the scandal-tainted fuel source as well.
Meanwhile, many automakers are pivoting to electric vehicles, including FCA. CEO Sergio Marchionne has said he expects most vehicles made by 2025 to either be fully electric or hybrid.
“By 2025 more than half of the power units you see on the road will have some relevance of electrification,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg. “There may be a base combustion engine, but it is combustion and electrification that will make the machine run. Electrification will happen not necessarily as full battery‑electric vehicles but in combination with other forms of power. It’s going to be a very interesting time.”
Before they devised the heat exchanger, they said a minor drawback to the turbine engine was how, when stopped in traffic, the car behind you would be getting its front end pieces welded together.
Back in the fifties, a neighbor had a Dodge power wagon. My gawd, what a monster that was.
I never understood why the auto manufacturers never made diesel hybrids. Audi was, IIRC, getting about 70 MPG in a small car on the test track with this technology.
Electric cars are, as a group, a huge threat to the electrical grid. We’re really going to have to beef up production to take on any significant numbers of electrics.
Of course they are, it's the most logical way to limit the ability of the serfs to move out of cities or otherwise have freedom of movement. That's the real "environmental" crime of diesels, they can burn a wide variety of fuels many of which can be made by enterprising individuals.
Can't have the serfs leaving their assigned metropolitan areas, now can we? So, force them into public transportation while leaving them the illusion that the 200 mile radius their vehicle can travel is the same thing as freedom of movement.
Look at how hordes from the Midwest moved to Texas in the eighties and you'll understand that the deep state fascists know they have to limit an individuals ability to move freely in order to keep cities like Baltimore, Boston, New York, Chicago, and all the CA cities from becoming ghost towns. Maybe they can't avoid the occasional black swan event like Reagan or Trump getting elected and righting the economy for a decade or so but they can make sure the serfs aren't capable of taking advantage of it.
JMHo
So much for that Diesel Jeep I’ve been waiting for.
I’ve had Dodge trucks for many years. The new versions beat the 1970’s and 1980’s versions all to Hell.
Thank you for that. It was very enjoyable.
Leno said there were only two in private hands.
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My eldest son, a building contractor, has a fleet of Dodges for his crews.
They are constantly falling apart, but because he has bought so many, the dealer takes them back without a gripe,and replaces them.
He drives Fords himself.
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Two salient points in one line about electric powered cars.
Public transportation is effective only in urban, high population areas, where there is sufficient demand and need, and can be self-supporting.
That 200 mile radius will apply below the Mason-Dixon line, while
cold and freezing temperatures in the northern climes reduce the effective range and radius of travel.
Not only that, but any undercarriage damage will result in battery damage and presents a HAZ Mat situation and possible fire damage.
Dumb and shortsighted.
Eco-warriors at the EPA declared war on diesels under Obozo...............
The article does not emphasize that it was imaginary worry about CO2 that prompted Euro promotion of diesel.
After years of monitoring, even dumb*** Euros admit the immediate danger from diesel pollutants is worse than the imaginary damage from CO2. And with today’s cleaner diesel, it’s probably not enough more danger than gas engines to worry about.
I’ve never had a quality or engineering issue with a Ram.
dump the
“womanized” so they “see better”, high road clearance cars, suvs, privet trucks, delivery trucks, jeeps etc. By the way, fire whatever idiot(S) designed,engineered,approved these “Womanized” vehicles!
I disagree, the people who run the government and have been planning their moves decades in advance. Studies done in the seventies when Buick had an early vehicle in testing showed that diesel/electric vehicles would be well accepted by the public.
That's exactly why they won't be sold here.
My Dodge Sprinter van has a diesel engine...... a Mercedes diesel
DAMN! Is was saving up to buy a diesel powered Viper!
“Is it as simple as the push to self driving cars - electric cars make that easier? And self driving cars give mobility control back to the government?”
My uncle has a country place. In his barn hidden under a tarp is a brilliant red Barchetta just waiting for the day when they impose the Motor Law.
It is my understanding - correct me if I’m wrong - that when processing crude oil there’s a certain balance between diesel and gasoline fuel you get out of the refinery process.
What are they going to do with all the excess diesel fuel when there are no more diesel cars? Dump it in rivers and oceans? Bury it in the desert for future generations? If they’re going to burn it in power plants or whatever, the same basic problem persists.
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