Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
by MagnumOpus on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:57AM
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> the tricky question: did anybody figure out how to do a clean enough diesel engine without cheating
Yes. It is just more expensive in terms of maintenance because the urea-based cleaning liquid ("AdBlue") needs to be refilled by the dealer a lot more often if the exhaust scrubbing doesn't cheat and disable it half the time.
If you are interested in the details of the topic, I can recommend this CCC conference talk from last month:
Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
by MichaelMoser123 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:11AM
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wow, thanks. That's really interesting. quite amazing.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/news/companies/epa-emissions...
the tricky question: did anybody figure out how to do a clean enough diesel engine without cheating?
i think its funny that European countries were pushing Diesel engines just because they emit less CO2, disregarding the NOx problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/05/vw-diesel-c...