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Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Gokhan, Jul 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM.

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  1. Isaac Zachary

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    Also activated carbon canisters and such on the vehicle itself that trap the more-prevalent-to-evaporation gasoline.
     
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    I think of clean diesel in the same vein as "clean coal".
     
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    Diesel engines can run coal dust.

    Diesel was a Europe thing: the poor man’s fuel-economy means over there. It turned out that gasoline–electric hybrids were a far better technology than diesels. Europe, instead of moving on to hybrids, kept with the inferior, far less fuel-efficient and far dirtier diesel technology to date.
     
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    Oh brother, love it when people talk in absolutes. "My color blue is the best". "My Generation Prius is the best". "My view of diesel is the best".
    never gets old
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    It's possible. Just not worth the effort with other options available.

    Diesel for true cars has the same issue. If fuel economy and emission regulations aren't rolled back, it may become less of an issue with future gasoline cars.

    The testing that revealed VW's cheating showed a BMW diesel meeting its emission rating.
    They can also run on vegetable oil, biodiesel, and hydrocracked vegetable oil(HVO). The latter is drop in for diesels on the road. Alcohol fuels aren't for gas cars.

    Depends on the job and needed tools. If the goal is reducing carbon emissions, mild diesel hybrids are the most economical option.

    Europeans wanted efficient, economical cars because of higher fuel taxes. The governments taxed diesel less for the same reasons it is taxed lower in the US. Concern for global warming was also on some minds early on there. Other emissions were a concern, which is why they had ULSD years before the US.

    And they wanted that before the year 2000. Toyota didn't get serious about spreading hybrid technology to the line up there until the current Corolla came out in 2018. They were selling diesel Rav4s instead of the hybrid that came to the US.

    Domestic car companies just had more sway than they should have in holding cleaner emissions in check. Which is also an issue here.
     
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    It looks like there is only one diesel PHEV in the world, and it gets 21 mpg combined. I’ll gladly pass. My 2021 Prius Prime Limited PHEV gets 70 mpg combined.

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    Last but not least, the typical Atkinson cycle is as thermal-efficient as a diesel cycle these days, and the diesel fuel has become more expensive than gasoline fuel. It is not to mention the much higher initial and maintenance costs of a diesel.
     
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