Why Diesel Cars Are Disappearing

Fun fact, Rudolph Diesel originally designed the engine for farmers to run on vegetable oil or coal dust, two fuels that farmers would normally already have on the farm, and as far as vegetable oil, could even produce themselves.

The background music isn't loud enough! I almost heard someone talking in the video!

As a diesel tech and someone who is very involved with the diesel trade, it boggles my mind why there hasn't been more research into tiny 2 cylinder diesel hybrids in cars. It would be small enough to not produce much emissions and be hands down the cleanest and most efficient thing on the road

lol the dude talking about all semis and long haulers going electric as soon as late 2020s is more than extremely optimistic haha

the thing is i wonder how many car companies have cheated emmisions tests in both petrol and diesel cars without being caught?

I had an 89 vw jetta turbo diesel and when I got it, that thing failed emissions by a larger margin. So I grounded the car and converted it to biodiesel myself. I had it tested again about a year later and the lady couldn't believe it. The lowest emissions she had ever seen on a diesel engine. She tested it 3 times and even called someone else out with a different tester who tested it several times and it passed with flying colors every single time. Diesels originally used plant based oil when they were released but big oil personally made sure they wouldn't stay like that.

I loved my VW TDI/IDI's

Had a diesel pickup from Isuzu for 20+years. Love it and drove it till the timing chain snapped. By then it was rusting out, but 40+ mpg in city and 50+ mpg on the highway was something I don't see anywhere else in any car company. Named it Ruth after the white dragon of the Pern series.

So, they're not really disappearing.

I wish the background music was higher. I hate to hear people talking in videos.

Imagine Electric car companies screwing up your car battery performance with a software update. Like they do with smart phones 😂

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When diesel engines were catching on in the USA. The oil companies raised the price of diesel fuel around 30% above the price of gas.

plot twist: it won't disappear

The development of diesel engines into the modern units you find in passenger cars today has come at another cost to one of their strengths, lack of complexity or more to-the-point reliability. Fully mechanically controlled diesel engines would run forever if properly maintained and you did not need a Ph.D. in electronic diagnostics to service or fix them. The humble Mercedes 123 series of the 70s and 80s when used as a taxi with the four-cylinder and five-cylinder diesel would return one million kilometers regularly before overhaul. Many would go even further and the London Taxi fleet had similar data using Perkins mechanical diesel. I commonly see diesel vehicles of less than ten years of age being scrapped because the repair costs make it not worth fixing and it is all the electronic and pollution wizardry that makes it so coupled with building the engines ever lighter and less robust.

I've been driving gasoline cars all my life, since the late 80s. I just bought my first diesel, one of the last "super"diesel cars available, a 380 hp 75 torque BMW 5 series, and it's been tuned to 440/85. This thing is absolutely wonderful. I plan on driving it for at least 10 years.

Well, diesels ARE much less flammable when hit by an armor-piercing round. Historically, this is very important to Germans.

Funny thing is when R. Diesel first showcased the Diesel engine at the world fair, it was running on Peanut oil. Seems they are slowly getting back to where he had originally started. lol.

Well researched. I liked that they expressed the scepticism towards electric trucks. I don't think we'll ever see long range trucks go electric. The underlying problem is that electric trucks would need to be 70+% battery, leaving only 30-% for cargo. Unfortunately, the batteries are pretty close to the theoretical limit of energy density, so they won't improve drastically from where they're now. The only sensible electrification for trucks would be them going hybrid.

Imagine a future were there’s underground diesel community that takes deep frier grease to keep there cars alive.