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Volkswagen is fuming over the Obama Administration’s proposal to double auto fuel efficiency, saying the plan unfairly values hybrid and all-electric cars over clean diesel, a technology VW has pioneered. Volkswagen is committed to continually making fuel efficient vehicles, such as the new mid-size, clean diesel Passat TDI, available to the U.S. market. Built in […]

With looming fuel efficiency standards dictating future car products, major automakers are investing a lot of time and money into developing EV’s and hybrid cars. Well…except for Chrysler. Instead, the Pentastar brand has announced that the Jeep Grand Cherokee will offer a diesel engine option in 2013, with other models to follow.

Denso, the Japanese fuel system supplier, says it will achieve common-rail system nozzle pressures as high as 3000bar in the foreseeable future. That implies an ability to start injection later in the cycle, closer to top-dead-centre, together with earlier cut-off, thereby achieving more complete combustion of the fuel, to the benefit of consumption and particulate […]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $50 million for clean diesel projects. These efforts will replace, retrofit or repower more than 8,000 older school buses, trucks, locomotives, vessels, and other diesel-powered machines. The Air Resources Board today is reminding owners of heavier diesel trucks that they need to act now in order to […]

General Motors will build the diesel version of its popular Chevrolet Cruze at its Lordstown, Ohio, plant in 2013.

GM confirmed that the smallest Chevy ever sold will come to the U.S. as a 2013 model. . . The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index (PCI), which is based on diesel consumption fell 0.2 percent seasonally adjusted.

The United States unveiled fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for long-haul trucks, heavy- and medium-duty work trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles requiring mileage improvements of 9 percent to 23 percent, depending on the category. Looking ahead to 2012, it is unclear whether Congress will continue to fund the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) […]

It is not too early for operators of refrigerated truck and trailer fleets to consider how Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tier 4 Final emission standards will affect their operations and equipment budgets over the next several years. The new EPA standards will take effect Jan. 1, 2013.

After many fits and starts, diesel cars are gaining traction in the U.S. market, fueled largely by German carmakers including Volkswagen, which opened a Tennessee plant in May. Volkswagen officials confirmed that the company is bringing the first diesel convertible to the U.S. in the form of the new Beetle Cabrio TDI. Audi reported its […]

The EPA’s proposed increases in the 2012 percentage standards for advanced biofuels and renewable diesel fuel is another important step in helping the United States achieve a sustainable energy future, according to Allen Schaeffer, the executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum (DTF).

Obviously, diesel oil is synonymous with the diesel engine because it is the most common fuel used in the diesel engine. However, as society’s demands increase and technology advances, experts are developing more and more alternative fuels for use in the diesel engine.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) awarded Navistar Inc. with a development contract under which Navistar will engineer a diesel powertrain replacement for USPS delivery vehicles. Navistar’s re-powered diesel vehicle effort is designed to significantly reduce the escalating service and fuel costs associated with the USPS’s aging fleet.