New Mercedes BlueTEC engines: Diesel Engines Greening SUVs

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While Detroit automakers GM, Ford, and Chrysler are literally on the verge of bankruptcy or another reckless government bailout, BMW is still trucking along, and doing so in a manner that consumers actually demand and appreciate unlike their domestic competitors. BMW is promoting their new, innovative diesel engines which are some of the most efficient and cleanest diesel engines in the world.

These beastly green machines are Mercedes-Benz BlueTEC engines.

So for the facts:

• When the BlueTEC engine was used first in 2007 in a Canadian Mercedes, and the vehicle was voted “World Green Car of the Year” due to it’s clean, efficient characteristics
• The engine is 20-40% more fuel efficient than its comparable gas counterparts
• It reduces the polluting nitrogen oxide normally released in emissions by an astounding 80%

Currently, the engine is utilized in Canadian Mercedes models, and is supposedly one of the only vehicles to meet the future, stricter emissions standards.

So a quiet running, fuel efficient, green, low emissions [renewable] diesel powered vehicle. You’re thinking, great, but I cannot afford it. Which is the same thing I’m thinking, but….

Mercedes is not keeping their innovative engine technology proprietary, but they’re instead opening up the technology to other car manufacturers. Presumably, they’ll license this great technology as a socially responsible company so it could potentially be available to the masses very soon.

While diesel technology inherintly has its drawbacks like every current, plausible energy source, it does have its environmentally sound niche as shown by BlueTec. So if/once US automakers get on the right foot and begin making green cars people want, lets hope that BluTEC esque technology finds its ways into our automobiles.