Diesel Or Not
Diesel is often looked at as being smelly, noisy, and
many think the only place for it is in a tractor. The
truth to diesel vehicles is that they are slow, noisy,
smelly, although they are cheaper to run than gas.
Diesel engines aren’t as powerful as gas engines, as
gas engines produce more horsepower than [...]
Gas Diesel Hybrid War
These days, gasoline prices may be crimping your
your household budget. You may like to reduce
the U.S. dollars that flow to the Middle East for
oil, or perhaps you are motivated by your concern
for the environment, or even the nagging reality
that oil is a depleting resource that shouldn’t
be wasted.
Fuel economy
To put it into [...]
Diesel Vehicles
As you probably already know, diesel engines get
better fuel economy than gas, simply because they
don’t need to burn as much fuel as gasoline engines
to get the same amount of power. Diesel engines
are built heavier than gas engines, to help sustain
the added stress of the much higher compression
ratios.
Diesel engines don’t have an ignition system [...]
General Information On Diesel Engines
Diesel engines offer the lowest specific fuel usage
of any other large internal combustion engine. The
fact remains, two-stroke diesels with high pressure
forced induction, particularly turbo charging, make
up a large percentage of the largest diesel engines.
Throughout North America, diesel engines are generally
used in larger trucks, where the low stress, high
efficiency [...]