I've essayed a good bit over the past year about Germans and their diesel car issues. I noticed this morning, via Focus (the German news magazine) a new bit on the diesel car business in Germany.
One of the major car-parts industry companies in Germany is Bosch. They do a lot of developmental ideas. So it came up today....they've been working on improving diesel engines.
They apparently have a new technology that would make the diesel crisis go away....a cleaner burning engine. Course, you have to wonder....is it too late? Are owners so fearful of diesel and the ban-business....that there is zero interest in ever going back to diesel?
The nitrogen oxide issue? What Bosch says is that their engine will meet the current specs required and the next level anticipated. They also say the cost factor will be no different than the current engine prices, and that fuel consumption will stay about the same.
The angle here? What they suggest is a new type of fuel injection technology, a change in the engine temperature situation, an improved air system and some kind of improved onboard computer system.
German diesel car owners were a fairly obsessive group of owners. Once they convinced themselves of diesel....they were career diesel-owners. Once a guy wrapped up ten years of ownership car number one....they'd go and easily convince themselves to get number two, and eventually number three. This VW crisis and the negativity created by cities suggesting they 'might' ban diesel cars? It ruined the mindset of these people. No one really knows what to expect now.
Bosch? Maybe they've got a great idea, but with the demand by the public leaning toward more battery-powered cars....this new engine development is probably wasted effort. Course, maybe with the Chinese, this might be moment where they entice Bosch to demo the engine, and install it into some Chinese-made cars.
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