mpg towing
just finished a 2588 mile trip pulling about 12000 lbs. (5th wheel)DW kept track and here is the low 9.4 and high 11.9-2013 Dodge 3500 4x4 with 6 speed stick-truck did a very good job-I was impressed!...
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hone eagle wrote:
The compression ratio's have been inching down bit by bit for a while now ,that and all the other measures to reduce NOX have hurt efficiency .
I don't know if the effeciency is down a lot, but the engines today make a lot more power than the diesels of yesteryear. It takes fuel to make power. More power means you can climb hills faster, accelerate faster etc. If today's diesel was driven the same way as the old ones (not generating any more power) the mpg numbers would probably be closer.
Of course, nobody's going to buy a 3.0 diesel in a 1-ton even if it did make the same power as the first generation turbodiesels. But it would probably get about the same mpg's
