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Monday 2 April 2018

The diesel squeeze

From the Guardian  

Parking problem: Volkswagen storing 300,000 diesels across US

Carmaker has paid $7.4bn to buy back 350,000 vehicles after it was exposed for circumventing emissions controls


What is it about diesel cars? It may be their range, the hundreds of miles even a big diesel car can travel on one tank of fuel. Electric cars cannot hope to match that so maybe diesel cars have to be squeezed out of the market via negative propaganda and ever tighter regulations.

I like diesels. Our main car is a diesel which manages well over 50mpg unless we are on the school run or nipping up and down Derbyshire hills. We bung in a few litres of AdBlue when the car tells us to top it up and that cures the NOx issue but enough is never enough when political motives intervene.

5 comments:

Sackerson said...

Reminds me of the fellow who gave his job as "diesel fitter" and when asked to elaborate said, "I sell women's undies in the Rag Market. I holds 'em up and says, dese'll fit 'er."

Mac said...

A K Haart,
Now that's a very good point.

Sackerson,
Thanks for the smile on a grey, wet afternoon.

James Higham said...

They're the engines of choice for boats.

Scrobs. said...

Best time ever to buy a VW - although we did sell our diesel Golf when a nice smaller engined petrol version came up last year...

A K Haart said...

Sackers - were you thinking of some other garment - dese'll squeeze 'er?

Mac - I'm sure there is something in it too.

James - yes, diesels are reliable and efficient.

Scrobs - what bothers me about small but powerful petrol engines is the life of them. Will they be finished after about 80,000 miles?