rhagfo wrote:
Lynnmor wrote:
4x4ord wrote:
Torque has little to do with it. Gears or electric motors can produce torque. Diesel engines power big equipment because they have traditionally been more fuel efficient than gasoline engines.
People like to talk about their large torque numbers, but horsepower is the measure of work that an engine can do.
Yep, that is why 235 hp and 410# 2001 diesels are all rated to pull 12,000#+ but it takes a 365 Hp EcoBoost to to the same.
A lot of that has to do with the chassis not the powerplant.
