New Superduty gas engine for 2023.

3 tons wrote:

But this assumes that adding a turbo (per your claim…) to a gasser will put out the same power as a diesel (huh? - seriously!!), and that gasser turbos are every bit as robust as are turbos on diesels (or maybe even as reliable as naturally aspirated gassers?)…Maybe this is true (I donno?), but if so, suggest that Detroit has overcome their shoddy ‘beta offerings’ rich past? This would be a welcome change indeed, but most definitely wasn’t the case on my last new truck purchase in 2016…

3 tons

Since we are talking Ford: Current motors...
- Diesel = 475 hp
- Gas 7.3 = 430 hp

Adding a turbo will typically boost the HP, so yeah, it should be able to match HP.

Using the 3.5 ecoboost, as an example, peak torque drops back to a much more sedate (almost diesel like) 2500-3000rpm range.

So yeah, the performance should be very comparable if not better than the diesel in some respects.

Yes, they can certainly be just as robust. The little 3.5 is putting out 385hp and seems to be fairly reliable. More than double the displacement to 7.3 while only bumping up the output by 100hp shouldn't be straining properly designed motor.

But of course as I previously stated, I would be surprised to see them do it for marketing/profitability reasons. Not because it's technologically difficult.