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Don't scrap that diesel car just yet!!
Apr 29, 2018
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but cannot be retro-fitted
From the people who made the test cheating engine management for VW. Very good.
You could see it that way, Dave. I see them more as industry leaders.
That will upset Harry.
Says nothing about particulate matter emissions. Which won't be easily got round
A lot of things upset Harry. If we avoided upsetting Harry, there'd be no content here. None at all.
That issue *ought* to be the easiest of the lot to solve, though. And if it *does* get solved (which I 100% believe it will before long) then the
30% or so efficiency bonus diesel enjoys over petrol will settle this nonsense for good.
Where does it say that?
They make the management units for lots of manufacturers, they don't do the software or mapping for them AFAIK.
They have already got around that as long as people don't illeagly bypass the filters.
I forgot to mention that electric cars produce more particulates per mile than similar sized diesels. The fuel is actually a minor part of the problem.
That will be because they were not trying to address that in this development.
It has already been done for some types of diesel engine. The challenge is adapting those solutions to cars. It is not an insurmountable problem.
Or the difference in efficiency narrowed even more. With stop start technology and even hybrids.
Don't really see how the two can be totally independant.
Statistics?
"While the system cannot be retrofitted to old cars, it is based on already-existing components and is available immediately. It can be incorporated into car makers? production projects,..."
Chris
I could have got this wrong, but the diesel cheating was nothing directly to do with Bosch. At worst, they made available the ability to easily modify their products.
Whether anything behind the scenes happened, we just don't know (yet). The OP's linked article suggests that may have been a possibility, in that test configurations (software maps?) won't be possible any more.
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Tyres yes, but surely an electric vehicle is going to be able to use electric braking, with mechanical brakes only necessary for parking and as backup? Which means that electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions and no brake wear particles.
SteveW
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