mass-hole wrote:
They were never going to work out the kinks. It sounds like many of the problems we are familiar with are repeating themselves on the EcoDiesel's as if the engineers never learned.
True.
Laziness and Profits probably have somewhat to do with it, but as long as manufacturers in the US market are not ALLOWED to address emissions (nox) in any other way besides EGR, any better solutions will never be developed. Those that
have been developed, that also resulted in increased fuel economy, have been disallowed by the Department of Energy.
Why fix a bad solution that works badly, when it causes increased fuel consumption, (Good for oil companies, GREAT for IRS, since hwy taxes in this country are based on fuel consumption, rather than miles driven). Additional manufacturing industries, (ALL catalytic converters, soot burners, exhaust additives, etc) which industries, additionally add to the US economy.
Look at the increases in fuel economy GDE tunes commonly accomplish. This is just by rearranging 1's and 0's.
In fuel alone, if all vehicles in the US were to invoke a solution that increased fuel economy by just 5%; either with no increase in pollutants, or even with a reduction; This would result in a $1.7 BILLION
reduction in road fuel tax revenue. If someone developed a way to accomplish this, that made Catalytic Converters UN-necessary, it would eliminate an entire industry, causing the price of Palladium to drop like a rock, virtually cutting in half the cost of your dental work involving fillings and crowns. (or doubling your dentist's profits) If they found a way to eliminate EGR systems, that would also sufficiently reduce NOx emissions... Every vehicle engine sold in the US would last, what, 10%... 20%... 50% longer? It's hard to imagine the list of industries that would take a blow because of that.
That's not counting the volume and profit (and tax revenue) reduction that would result from reduced Oil Company sales, and the price reduction from product oversupply it would cause.
And anyone thinks the Government is going to sit quietly and allow all that? Allow
ANY of that? Are you freaking kidding me?
These are just a few of the reasons that they MANDATE the use of EGRs , Catalytic Converters, and other BAD solutions to emissions problems, rather than allowing human brilliance and ingenuity to develop better methods. These were methods put in place by the administration of the mid 1970s, and they created the DOE to cement them. This system, unlike our beloved vehicles, is working as intended, and is why it's results are mostly limited to the vehicle models sold in the US, and a few of that specification which made it overseas. The brilliance of corrupt politicians is overruling the brilliance of the people.
It's also well exampled by Ford's 6.0 and 6.4 engines. The engines work flawlessly and reliably in every market that
doesn't fall under the restrictions governmental-ly
(notarealword) applied in this nation. Only HERE are all these true P'sOS.
/rant over.
I think
For now.
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