Rumored ‘Big-Block’ Duramax Diesel Could Be 8.3L and We’re Off the Rails Now::You’d expect diesel engines to get smaller as time goes on, but recent reports claim GM’s truck power plant could grow by more than a liter.

  • NeroC_Bass@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    California passed a law that new vehicle sales in that state, I think past January 2024, cannot be diesel if the engine is under 7 liters. I wonder if this is Duramax’s response.

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    10 months ago

    Because I don’t have enough oversized idiots blasting their headlights in my eyes. Cool.

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      10 months ago

      If you read the article, you would see that larger diesel engines have lower emissions due to reduced compression ratios.

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        10 months ago

        If you read the article, you would see that

        if you believe the entirely baseless claim in that article, …

        There you go.

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          10 months ago

          If you don’t understand mechanical engineering and take your own knowledge of engines as being better than the calculations of literal engineers…