Arnie J píše:protože dízl je smradlavý hnůj
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Arnie J píše:protože dízl je smradlavý hnůj
There are two main historical reasons that diesel cars are not popular in the US.
In the early 1980’s, diesel engines were viewed as a solution to the steep increase in fuel prices after the Iranian Revolution. Diesel offered a lower cost per gallon and much higher fuel efficiency than gasoline.
There were two noteworthy new entrants into the US diesel auto market at that time - GM (Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, and Cadillac) and Volkswagen. (Mercedes Benz had already been selling a lot of diesel cars in the US before this time, but they were priced out of reach for most US customers.)
The diesel engines of that era were painfully slow, as they didn’t have turbochargers. They were noisy and generated a lot of smoke. The GM versions also had numerous mechanical problems and were hated by customers.
The bad experiences with the GM diesel models left a bad taste in the mouths of US consumers for a long time. The diesel VW Rabbit died it’s own death because it wasn’t nearly as peppy as the gasoline version, and no one wanted a small slow car.
The other reason that diesel development in the US was slowed was because of environmental regulation. The EPA could get the emissions it wanted from gasoline engines by the introduction of catalytic converters and later implementation of oxygenated fuel and reformulation.
The EPA viewed diesel cars as particularly problematic with soot, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen. And they were right. Heavy trucks were exempted from the bias against diesel engines, but the US environmentalists have opposed the widespread use of diesel cars.
Given the change in attitudes of the EU governments toward diesel, it appears that the US approach may have been right all along.
More recently, the emissions cheating by VW was discovered, and that aggravated the US attitude against diesel cars.
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