Posted by buickanddeere on December 05, 2017 at 09:35:42 from (173.241.103.246):
In Reply to: Gas vs Diesel posted by Oliver 500 Wa on December 04, 2017 at 23:53:35:
If the rest of the world did not luxury tax gasoline into being more expensive than diesel fuel. There would be very few small diesel engines and light highway motor vehicles in diesel.
It is most cost effective for vehicle and small equipment manufactures to build Tier I or II diesels for the majority of the world market. Then stick the cost of Tier IV emissions to western Europe and North America where the customers have deep pockets.
The injected gasoline engines in small offload sports equipment and light highway vehicles has become very efficient and cost effective.
After persuading customers to go the many advantages of a non emissions diesel diesel to get away from points ignition and carburetors up into the 1980's. It will be a tough sell now to move gasoline powered small farm equipment .
Although spark ignition engines still rule the lawn, golf, sports, forklifts, manlift , portable generator etc market.
We have diesel Kubota's at work and they are a pain for short trip operation outside in cool and cold weather. Some people never learn to heat the glow plugs prior to cranking. The short trips and glow plugs leave the batteries dead and require charging. Or pushing the vehicles inside to warmup.
The cab heaters don't work as the engines rarely raise the temperature gauge off the bottom indication.
We are trying to order the next Kubota in gasoline but this will have operators pumping gasoline into the diesel equipment and diesel into the gasoline equipment.
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