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  1. diesels were designed to run on vegetable oil by the inventor so there's lots of other sources out there for bio diesel

    That is true of older diesels. Anything with high pressure injectors pd and up will fail on veg oil or not top grade bio diesel.

  2. Professinal bullcrap detector. Read the link it's all explained there. I don't think you rally understand anything then if you didn't understand that.

    A hummer gets 4mpg and a Mondeo 35mpg. Both cars are only given 1 gallon of fuel. They are both burning the same amount or fuel therefore hummer = Mondeo. That's your logic.

    You brought up this whole Prius is worse than hummer. I got you a link showing it was from the the daily mail and proving it was false. Don't cry about it.

  3. Over what lifetime though. That's the point.

    Diesels won't die but legislation and govermebf restrictions will kill them. I can bet you in the next 20 years they will ban all pollution emitting vehicles in London. Well the centre anyways.

  4. Battery proves are dropping yearly.

    Plus battery tech is more reliable than thought. Mk2 Prius''s from 1999 still going. Leafs with 100k miles only losing 10% of their range. Plus batteries can be re purposed. Say you got a leaf. 24kwh battery. Say you lose 50%. Stick it in your house and use it there. It can charge at night and depending on your house size still last you days.

  5. It's the fuel economy for me. The ability to achieve 70mpg or more while that Mercedes, yes it goes faster, yes it's luxury, but it only does 30mpg and if you're lucky it gets you there 5 minutes quicker on my commute.

    The government could smash diesel and make plenty because I'm yet to see a petrol car consistently give those higher mpg figures.

    That's my point why diesels suck. Our generation of diesels where fairly simple and put in small cars. Then they jacked up the power and fuel consumption took a nose dive. Also DMF, DPF, turbo and clutch failure are very very common and very costly where as the 1.9 tdi and sdi's didn't suffer too much.

    You can get crazy high powered hybrids and get 40+mpg in a car that won't blow injectors or dpfs. Infinity q hybrid and the lexus gs450h. If your looking at the high mpgs then a civic 1.6 dtec will get you those sort of figure but can you not see that diesel's are on the decline and petrol engines are the one getting all the tech. Look at modern bmw and mercedes petrols. Powerful and they still get 40+mpg.

  6. We don't have tesla mate. Your leaf only does what 160 miles? Useless for many people.

    What do you mean you don't have tesla?

    Probably about 90 miles. Many people? No doubt it. I used to commute 120miles a day. I managed it in the leaf no problem. I only commute 40 miles now. 20 miles there and then back. Charge up at the charging point. It's great. I'm not going to argue about it tbh as most people haven't driven one so it's just useless debating it.

    Those wind farms in Scotland were built with British subsidies, so don't get too smug. Wind power is unreliable anyway. If you disconnected England from Scotland and tried to power yourselves from Wind you would end up with blackouts.

    LOL!

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  7. And what about the power shortage we keep getting told about? We have to borrow electricity from other countries when everyone plugs their kettle in at half time during the world cup, can you imagine if everyone plugged their electric car in at the same time? You're only removing the problem of emissions from the car and moving it to the power stations, either nuclear or coal fired at the moment, both creating their own pollution issues.

    I'm with Skezza, hydrogen fuel cell is the way forward, as soon as someone perfects it!

    Lies. Scotland has a massive energy surplus. Also regarding the moving the problem on is hilarious. You should see much electric is needed to refine petrol.

  8. Hydrogen is being pushed by the oil industry. Your really think they are going to use nuclear to use water?

    Look at a tesla with 90kwh batteries. That's more than enough. That's like 350-400miles. Add a rapid charger and it will take you not long to top that up. BEV's are the way forward.

  9. As someone who considers himself a bit of an academic, I'm happy to read any papers you can provide backing up those claims.

    Peer reviewed preferably and maybe not the prestigious Henry Ford academy...

    The guy speaks truth. NOx is the thing that bad for people. Co2 is just a green house gas, NOx causes really really nasty CAN (not will) cause nasty diseases.

    Peer review means nothing. Doctors where telling you to smoke back in the day and still prescribe dangerous pharmaceuticals today. All about the money.

    So NOx what about it. Well you get NOx from diesels due to the massive heat. Heat comes from the massive compression. Mazda and other Japanese diesels run at much lower compression 16:1 rather than 20 or higher to lower NOx.

    All those companies you name DESERVED to be named and shamed, no different with vw. I will never defend a big company even if I own their stuff. They don't care about you just your money. To defend a big company IMO is just sillyness.

    NOx isn't tested for here. Just Co2 or particles, because that's the one everyone knows about. I agree with diesels dying though. For a while they where huge but where has it all gone? Most german cars still have diesel as they sell well but all the research is going into petrols and it shows. Petrols are now cleaner, faster and sip fuel less than diesels these days. With no expensive DPF or DMF repairs. I've driven a diesel since I was 18 and think they are good in certain ways but always knew their limitations. Diesel is not the way forward. Look at any modern diesels fuel consumption, not the rated but actual. It will suck.

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