Mercedes ditching diesels in North America
Here is a blurb about this. Is this meaning that Sprinters will be made with gasoline engines, or pulled out of the market completely?
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down home wrote:
EPA is the reason. Our regs are tougher than Europe's.
A long time ago EPA appointed and elected officials declared a goal of eliminating diesels from the road.
B20 has less energy but higher lubricity. It attracts water more easily and microbes love it, pus in cold weather (it wants to separate, with any hint off water and goes down hill from there.) I will have to check to reafirm this point.)
We wouldn't have it despite the EPA's war on Fossil fuels,and Bio Diesel as well as Ethanol Corporate Farms and their lobbies spending billions to get it mandated in fuel and subsidize their production too.
Legislating Profits is what they have done. Our taxes and higher prices, and problems with fuel and expensive engines be damned.
Welfare for Alternative Fuel Billionares, and hugely increased cost for Engiens and fuel systems and maintenance or Americans.
B20 has so close to the energy content of summer #2 that you won't notice any difference in performance. I've run B20 off and on and never noticed any difference in performance or mileage. and it has better lubricity. and B20 has a higher cetane rating that #2.
Unlike E10, which is an entirely different story.
as for water etc. that I don't know.
