Posted on 06/07/2024 12:52:00 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
make wood gas
yet
FOX News said it was 65 miles per gallon.
I’m hoping they were wrong.
But don’t forget to wear your seatbelts and head gear.
You don’t need diesels which make NOx and particulates by the very combustion processes physics, then you need three stage SCR , OXY and PPM cats to make it not as clean as a gasoline motor with a normal three way cat. Those are real pollutants and diesels will always be dirtier due to the NOx Soot trade off that is part of the MCCI combustion process of.12 to 20 chain carbon molecules it’s unavoidable.
The better option is to use soot free fuels if you want to go the MCCI.combustion route which all diesels are. Clearflame has MCCI.class 8 engines that are cleaner than the 2027 standards and the 2030 standards today with only.three way cats because they ditched diesel fuel that will never be clean via the laws of physics for shorter chain oxygenated fuels. They even got higher power per cubic inch and lower BSFC due to higher temp and more complete combustion vs diesel fuel. Ethanol was the fuel of choice,natural,.gas works too.
For LDV the obvious choice is electric drive trains the full sized 2024 Camry hybrid will return 58 city and 52 on the motorways in real-world driving. The smaller Corolla or Prius both get in the 60s on the motorways and I have seen a legit 75mpg over ten miles of bumper to bumper in DFW gridlock so the tech is already in production with the world’s largest car maker to easily hit 39 mpg. Toyota is not even selling the Camry as anything but a hybrid in 2025 that’s how strong they know their two motor system is. The Camry is one of the best selling cars in the world only the Tesla Model Y sells more units of a single car type worldwide. Every manufacture is going to move to electric drive systems the P&E is to great not too. Modern silicon carbide electronics are significantly cheaper than gears and fluids and actuators. Two motor/gen EDUs will be the standard by 2027 if not sooner not just to meet CAFE but because it allows multiple primary power sources and only one drivetrain to build and support.
China has a Toyota Camry sized hybrid that just demonstrated 108 mpg in urban driving over 100+km in real world streets in a city of 7 million. The tech is there the will is not. Oh and that plug in hybrid goes 50 miles all electric at one fifth the cost of gasoline in a 30mpg car and $3 a gallon fuel. How much does this wonder car cost it’s on sale right now so not a concept car it’s $13,000 American yeah the tech is there.
Toyota just signed a JV to use this tech since it’s kicking there butts in mpg.
This also has the LFP blade packs the ones you can drive a steel spike completely through and they won’t burn nor vent toxic gas so that skree is moot. Given that LFP packs can do 20000 cycles to 50% DOD and 6000 to 100% a 50 mile plug in even drained to zero before the ICE kicks in hint it’s not would still be 300,000 miles to 80% SOH which is not dead it still hold 80% of its new capacity at that point.
https://www.electrive.com/2024/06/01/new-byd-phev-2100-km-range/
If I had a 'hybrid' with an .049 motor that ran for 1/4 mile, and then switched to batteries, I could get maybe 200 MPG!
“All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”
Ditto.
Note that diesel fuel has more BTU per gallon than gasoline
Automotive gasoline = 125,000 Btu/gallon.
Diesel motor fuel = 138,700 Btu/gallon.
You take advertising spin from sketchy websites and present is as fact.
Really?
I'd expect it to be French, or Chinese or even American.
Obama’s Cash for clunkers severely depleted the 60’s inventory.
My 1970 Pontiac Goat was plenty for me.
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