Originally Posted by Gambalunga
Originally Posted by sospan
Similar to the decision on diesel a few years ago. The better mpg was the excuse until the NOx problems that were known about suddenly became an issue. Short term decision making at it’s best/worst.
Seems like another political posturing episode where it looks like good decisions are being made yet the background is not as rosy. Use political posturing to appear to be climate concerned without full understanding or choose political expediency.
Surely the current generation of diesel cars with Plusblue addative to reduce NOx emissions have largely resolved that problem. I am surprised at how few full hybrid and plugin hybrid cars have diesel engines. In fact, off the top of my head I can't think of one.

I still believe that the future is in hydrogen fuel cell cars. We still have a long way to go to manufacture an distribute sufficient green hydrogen, and lithium batteries will still be required, but not to the degree of a BEV. The ideal future is perhaps something like a plugin fuel cell hybrid. Short trips made on pure battery and then the "range extender" fuelcell cuts in, even while stopped in traffic or parked for a coffee, to top up the relatively small battery pack. Then, when available, or overnight, the car is plugged in to bring it up to full charge.

For us petrol heads there will probably be a pretty valid bio petrol before long.

Without question the Plusblue additive has gone a long way to clean up the diesel emissions, and I'm looking at a diesel car for myself having driven the wife's Euro6 Mercedes SLK 250d, as we also need a four seater. Other than when in regenerative mode, when its burning the residue in the DPF, the diesel emission are amazingly clean and do not smell at all of the combustion cycle, one used to experience in older diesels. Hopefully the finding of the massive deposit of naturally occurring hydrogen in France's coal mines (and hopefully elsewhere), will lead the way to its use more widely with current ICE technology.

Last edited by JohnHarris; 22/12/23 10:11 AM.

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