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Please diesel jeans are like so 10 years ago
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In most cases the fossil fuels that are consumed in order to generate the electricity to charge the batteries of the electric vehicle.
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The EPA ratings are a good bit more conservative these days as well! My '88 Izuzu P/U with a 94HP 2.3 liter gas engine and 5s box gets a true 28mpg on the freeway at 65mph. It was EPA rated at 24mpg hwy in 1988, which would be about 21mpg by today's ratings methods (which take more mixed driving distances and other variables into consideration). People often don't believe me when I tell them I've driven 550 miles on just one 19.8 gallon tank of gas. The truck weighs 2700# and never had air conditioning or power steering btw. It has never broken down in 170k miles of driving and still uses all four of it's original pairs of brake pads (and it's original clutch). So I think that the "40mpg" Focus could be freeway driven (by a cyclist:-)) to 50mpg in good conditions. Last edited by dddd; 04-25-2018 at 06:02 PM. |
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I think $5 a gal gas is unlikely with new drilling tech
With new drilling tech i.e. fracking, I do not think oil and gas prices will go as high as 2008. The market now has the ability to increase supply when prices cross their price threshold.
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the notion that a 3 cyclinder turbo charged engine will out last it payments is hoot. you'll be enjoying the comfy seats while the car is in the garage with a broken motor. no manufacturer is going to put a turbo on anything they can't sell for more than $20k.
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Generation is the issue with electric vehicles. We are not producing enough electricity to power the projected fleet. Charging a vehicle in your driveway on a sunny day based on rooftop solar is a bit unrealistic for most of the US due to weather/need to be in an office, etc. Energy storage is in its infancy, and will need to be a lot more prevalent and useful. My company makes EV chargers (including the bus stop one) which uses a huge amount of power to charge things quickly, which results on stress on generation. Li Ion batteries, when used in EVs are basically done when the reach 80% of useful life. HUGE issue with toxic waste at that point, if we end up with a 10-20% EV fleet, we'll have bigger toxic waste issues (given current storage tech) than we ever would have had with an all nuclear grid...
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interestingly just read that ford is scaling back it's small car lineup big time to focus on SUVs and trucks...
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You are correct that all these new technologies have considerably improved the fuel economy of current gas engines, but they are now much more complex and expensive, approaching that of modern passenger diesel engines. They are also emitting lots more particulates then before. If your brother can get 50mpg on the highway in that Focus, he would easily get 60+mpg in VW Golf TDI. |
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i read the new equinox diesel is able to pull 40mpg freeway. i think the complexities of these new diesels seems to make them less friendly though, and they're quite different from the old NA or indirect engines that you could fix with a hammer and a wrench and could go 500k before rebuilds
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remember when Gm built diesels in the 90's. have a hard time envisioning improvement. the new diesels are designed for the buyer to have a constant car payment and little else. once when he buys it and again when it blows before his last payment and when trades it for the next one and rolls his payments for another 60 months........
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Leaving them nothing to sell next time gas prices spike. D'oh.
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....i dunno, the last "fast & furious" was pretty awful....i'd say vin diesel is done .
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Current AAA fuel prices have diesel running about 25 cents higher a gallon than regular gas.
On my 2k mile Minneapolis trip last year my 2015 Accord averaged 38.2 MPG running 5 mph above any posted highway speed. This did include some city driving at posted speeds. Why change to diesel???? |
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Diesel cost does fluctuate independently of gas. For quite a while, diesel was the cheapest fuel in New England, below regular gas. On the other hand, my 2010 Touareg TDi gets 27 mpg on the highway (and its replacement, a '13 Q7 TDI gets 31). An equivalent gas V8 engined Touareg might get 18-20, on premium gas. Last edited by C40_guy; 11-20-2018 at 09:49 AM. |
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