Volvo Claims This Will Be The LAST Generation Of Diesel Engines

Volvo's latest generation of diesel engines could be its last because the cost of reducing emissions of nitrogen oxide is becoming too expensive, CEO Hakan Samuelsson was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

"From today's perspective, we will not develop any more new generation diesel engines," Samuelsson told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview.

However, a Volvo spokesman said on Wednesday that Samuelsson had been discussing options rather than a firm plan to stop the further development of diesel engines.

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TheSteve - 5/17/2017 11:18:31 AM

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Wow! Looks like lots of people are getting out of diesel.

I can't help but wonder if these companies' decision just coincided to align to follow Dieselgate, or whether the US authorities revising what constitutes a "cheat device" has forced a widespread wake-up call for many manufacturers to realize "they're onto us", and that they can't make diesels meet emission laws, legally, ethically, and cost-effectively. My bet is on the latter :-(

Even the mighty Mercedes has quietly withdrawn all their North American diesels after failing certification, and being under investigation of diesel emissions "irregularities," already found.

vdiv - 5/17/2017 6:40:25 PM

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Fuck diesel. Time for it to go the way of the dodo bird and steam engines (which incidentally were killed by diesel electrics as being cleaner)

TomM - 5/17/2017 7:36:45 PM

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As long as the differential in price exists between Petrol and Diesel in the EU - there will be diesel engines because the difference is so great that they can actually justify paying quite a premium for a diesel car and still come out ahead. This artificial difference(It is tax) never happened in USA - and justifying the diesel will become harder to do with Diesel being more expensive that regular in most areas.

The "steam" engine never actually left us. THe fact is - They emit only water in one form or another. Their fuel is STEAM - which is not controlled. Now - how they get the steam DOES emit things - and that is why they are used less - but among other things - most electricity in the Country is produced using steam engines still. All Nuclear Power Plants use a steam engine run generator to produce power too. It would not surprise me if - someday - solar panels collected "heat" to create steam to run cars on the road -Solar being the OBVIOUS fuel of choice for nearly everything. Sure - we may not be here to see it - but we may also not be here to see TVR become viable again too.

MDarringer - 5/17/2017 9:08:52 PM

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@vdiv I agree with you.

Electrification is simply better.

The new TVR is a hybrid...it burns gas and rubber.

vdiv - 5/17/2017 9:35:50 PM

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Steam is not a fuel, it's an energy carrier, the energy in the form of heat being obtained by burning coal. Similarly molecular hydrogen is not a fuel, it has to be separated through steam-reforming nat. gas, or worse, from water through electrolysis.

The more progressive places like Colorado are forgoing fossils as they have gobs of wind and sun. I was actually shocked at the vast number of wind generators that have popped up in Kansas of all places until it dawned on me, Oz works in mysterious ways.