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My lazy was off the charts and I just picked up a uhaul .7 miles from the car instead of bringing my 3000lb monstrosity of a tilt bed powered trailer. Had to stop for fuel since the sequoia drinks like crazy and I'm stupid and only had just under half tank....180 mile trip both ways and towing is like 15 mpg.
Holy smokes, with those efficiency figures, why waste money developing Hybrids?
They get higher than that, the one I bought is considered the pinnacle and can hit 70+ if you tune for max MPG vs power. They also drive amazingly well due to the high TQ levels and don't bore you to death like a hybrid, so much less fuel is used as well as no batteries etc that the actual long term effect is near zero if you care about that sort of thing......I don't but I want to play a game of "can I drive a whole year on less than $400"!
I want to play a game of "can I drive a whole year on less than $400"!
Doesn't get anywhere near 55mpg (my lifetime average was 29mpg), but my 335d cost $403 for fuel in 2020, and $372 in 2021. Obviously there was some pandemic influence there.
Diesel has slightly more energy per volume. Against an atkinson gas/petrol engine, it isn't so impressive. Factor in what you have to do to make a diesel anywhere near as clean (not clean burning, just clean) and it's very obvious why hybrids were/are developed. I'd rather drive my car and not be bored with fuel quality, HPFPs slowly disintegrating and sending particles down the high pressure fuel rail, blown injector coils & drivers, partially/sometimes/however clogged injectors, stuck glow plugs, blown head gaskets (somehow a common thing on most diesels?!), all the cleanup circuits (low & high pressure EGR, DPF, SCR, LNT, all of them on newer ones) & other diesel goodies. But yes, they do well on long highway runs, and a lot of euro manufacturers simply couldn't build reliable petrol engines to save their lives. And they pretty much always come with a turbo, so cheap gains.
Anyways, the way I see it, less refinement & less reliability for better fuel consumption vs. a pure petrol car.
Diesel has slightly more energy per volume. Against an atkinson gas/petrol engine, it isn't so impressive. Factor in what you have to do to make a diesel anywhere near as clean (not clean burning, just clean) and it's very obvious why hybrids were/are developed. I'd rather drive my car and not be bored with fuel quality, HPFPs slowly disintegrating and sending particles down the high pressure fuel rail, blown injector coils & drivers, partially/sometimes/however clogged injectors, stuck glow plugs, blown head gaskets (somehow a common thing on most diesels?!), all the cleanup circuits (low & high pressure EGR, DPF, SCR, LNT, all of them on newer ones) & other diesel goodies. But yes, they do well on long highway runs, and a lot of euro manufacturers simply couldn't build reliable petrol engines to save their lives. And they pretty much always come with a turbo, so cheap gains.
Anyways, the way I see it, less refinement & less reliability for better fuel consumption vs. a pure petrol car.
Lol nope, this is far superior to a weak little Atkinson 4cyl engine with no TQ and far more reliable since it's a real diesel not the horrible restricted junk that the emissions scams mandate. All that extra junk takes energy to produce/R&D and cuts into MPG requiring more fuel to move the same distance.
The production and god forbid shipping side of fuel production is insane vs tailpipe, the less any car uses the better even if it has 20-200% more at the tailpipe. Now if the goal is to just simply offload pollution to other parts of the world we don't care about then absolutely! The current plan is perfect for that.
All the newer diesels with those emissions systems become amazing when you strip it all off, you gain 30-40% MPG and if you convert the pump to a CP3 it also grants perfect reliability
Even with max power it's still slow vs my other stuff so why bother lol?!? I would want this to play to its strengths as much as possible and that dictates optimized injection events etc
If I had something like the Audi 4.2 then yeah, I would go for a power build as those are very crazy with moderate work
01-11-24, 10:41 AM
Obviously there was some pandemic influence there.
