German engineers with the spirit of pioneers

[Somchai]

and maybe Diesel cars will become more popular in the U.S. too???

Read here: http://time.com/3837814/audi-environ...e-change-cars/

[Snake]

Deisel vehicles are getting the best "gas" mileage fir vehicles in there class. I like em. Much quieter than they used to be.

[alex.s]

there is a very big problem with the idea.

electrolysis to get hydrogen from water is hugely inefficient when compared to instead simply storing that energy in batteries and runing from that.

[Alex]

Getting the US to be more excited about diesel would take 30+ years, if it were to ever happen. It's not only a preference thing, it's a refining capacity thing. The entire refining infrastructure has been set up for right about the diesel mix we have now. In Europe it has been different for decades, and the refiners are built up to accomodate that split. If the demand for diesel were to grow in the US, the price of it would also grow, which would self-limit the demand. Changing the refineries would require investments of hundreds of billions over many years, which just isn't going to happen on its own. We'll be phasing off of fossil fuels by the time any significant shift to diesel would be able to happen.

[alex.s]

electric cars are everywhere now. i think H3 from the moon is more likely to become popular versus diesel or gasoline fuels making a come back

[Rifleman]

I'd buy a natural gas powered car tomorrow if they would offer it.

the Black and Yellow Taxi in Buenos Aries run on natural gas... I'd love to hook it up to the pipes in my house. Just give me a high pressure connection and I'm good to go.