Re:Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified
by bloomthrowaway on Monday July 09, 2018 @11:33AM
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maybe, but its cleaner in other ways. It burns hotter and more efficiently, creating less CO2 and some other byproducts by a decent margin. It produces more SO due to fuel sulfur content, and more NOX which is produced because of high temperatures. So its a trade-off.
But at this point the limits are just politicians pulling levers. There's not enough science involved to debate which pollutants we care about and what the lowest realistic limits are.
There's another way of looking at this, and that's that maybe diesel just isn't clean enough for consumer cars?