dstig1
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I think all the talk about regulation is overblown. The regs are a very small % of cost, and the rest of the world is catching up anyway. The big factor in manufacturing is labor. As long as folks in other coutries will work for a small fraction of what we do, we will lose jobs. The only option is to automate the processes as much as possible. Which eliminates much of the labor.....
Sorry, but you are very wrong. The costs if emissions equip on diesels is quite high as they are very difficult to clean up. Gas engines are a breeze by comparison. The solutions tor diesels are also pretty poor, but it us all they can figure out for now. Having to add DEF is a poor engineering solution, but it is the best there is for now.
Hopefully, someone creates the breakthrough like they did on 2strokes a few years back. They went to a new stratified combustion/intake and cleaned them up a bunch, mostly ht burning a lot more of the gas going into the cyl. Nit to imply this is a solution for diesels, just the innovation process that created a dramatic technology shift...