They basically all did it, some just got caught earlier. I said it back when they all hit on Volkswagen: It is not like that all the other companies have found the magic trick to get emissions miraculously down, and just VW was to stupid to find it somehow, and had to cheat. This time it’s Cummins they caught. All you have to do is look closely, and you’ll find that they cheat, because in reality, none of them have that magic trick.
That’s what diesel exhaust fluid is for, it reduces NOx emissions.
The VW engines were small and didn’t have DEF, so everyone was like “how did you reduce NOx enough to meet U.S. EPA standards?” And VW was like “we’re just super smart like that”, which turned out to be bullshit.
Cummins knew better and had better emissions controls available, so this is full on stupid on their part.
in reality, none of them have that magic trick.
Yes they do. It’s called an electric motor. But that requires revitalizing infrastructure in order to accommodate fast charging across an urban landscape so utility trucks can top up whenever needed. And, of course, a company like Cummins being willing to make them.
But we can’t get off that oil teat.
It’s called walking, better than any car. Having cars in major cities is so stupid. And before you say contractors need to have trucks, sure the do. But, I’m tired of companies sending out service vehicles to make almost 200 mile round trips, just so the competitor doesn’t get the job.
This is about utility vehicles, which are needed in cities even with robust transportation systems. Cargo still needs to be hauled the last mile.
Okay and everywhere else?
I’d love for cities to go full on mass transit. Even bringing in light freight to business areas so restaurants and the like could just use a handcart. But there’s a lot of people and businesses in the US that will never cover.
You still need to get that electric from somewhere and like half the country still runs on either coal or oil.
Earlier this year I saw that NY State is outlawing gas stoves and gas and oil (hot water) heaters in new residences. The funny thing is that NY State gets over 50% of its energy from oil fired energy plants. So instead of smaller places using gas and oil maybe a few times a day, they’re going to be putting increased loads on an already stressed system (at least in the case of NYC, where this is largely targeted since it contains a good amount of the state’s population). They’re not really helping anything.
Electric appliances are generally more efficient than appliances powered directly by non renewable sources though. And a single oil/gas powerplant is probably more energy efficient than thousands of individually gas and oil powered appliances. So just changing to electric appliances will already reduce emissions.
And it sets the city up to upgrade to renewable energy in the future.
NY apartments also notoriously have zero ventilation
We should be moving away from gas and oil entirely instead of just saying “no one can install these in your homes anymore”, it’s just shifting the load.
If you insist on waiting for that magical “silver bullet” That will fix everything with no downside, you’re not getting anywhere. You’ll never improv. Things will never get better. You’re frozen in over-thinking.
“No more new gas hookups” is a tiny step forward. By itself, not too significant and would take over a century to have an impact. Nevertheless, it is a step forward. As we talked more such steps, we’ll be able to move right along
You could also argue “no new gas hookups” as a consumer protection thing, whatever is the consumer of that. You’re saying that we don’t expect the new infrastructure to be productive long enough to justify the cost
Then there’s the medical impact, at least for inside appliances. You may try to argue it but the best medical knowledge has a strong correlation of childhood asthma and other lung problems with indoor gas appliances.
The problem is “public health” vs “private funding from businesses with interest” and we know the latter almost always wins. It’s two steps forward and one step back, which is still progress, but self defeating progress.
That’s never been how technology shift or legislation works though. Everything comes in phases.
True, but we both know that the oil and gas industry has a stranglehold on the US in pretty much every way, shape, or form. It seems like this is just another “look we’re doing something good for the environment!” when in reality it’s just “theater”.
You probably don’t know that having a gas stove in your house is the benzene/cancer equivalent of a cigarette smoker sitting in your fucking kitchen blowing smoke in your face while you cook dinner.
I’ve seen that referenced like once before. I don’t see you backing that up, only getting angry.
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A. That powerplant is far more efficient
B. There’s no reason NY can’t change to renewable sources.
The problem is that tens (or probably hundreds) of thousands of gas stoves and oil burners still exist and are used daily, this also doesn’t cover restaurants or commercial businesses, so the impact is pretty minimal.
Your “B” suggestion is hilarious because if they wanted to they could have done it already, there are (at least) two nuclear reactors in NY State IIRC, but they have been constantly blocked at every turn from building new ones for the past few decades by the oil and gas industry. Hydroelectric plants are already in use, along with wind turbines. If it was as simple as “build renewable power plants” don’t you think we would have done that everywhere by now (where it’s feasible, obviously)?
So because we haven’t done it yet, we shouldn’t do it now? That’s just the inverse of we do it this way because we’ve always done it this way. Both are piss poor reasons not to change now.
If I’m doing my math right, $1.675B/630k vehicles is around $2.5k/vehicle. Barely cutting into the profits on what I assume is Dodge’s most successful line.
We can’t let our customers access the EMS! They’ll spoof emissions! /s
Maybe 1% of 1% of people would actual play with their cars and tune them. Even then, most wouldn’t make the cars into polluting machines.
I think it’d be significantly more than that, but that’s probably bias from the kind of people I tend to be around. I’m thinking maybe as much as 5%.
That said however, we do have the assholes who like to “roll coal”.
I guess they did see it cummin.
I came here for this.
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The shocking part about this is that they installed a dedicated defeat device and expected no one to notice. Come on guys, cars are software, if you want to end run the emissions standards just write more creative code.
that’s literally what vw did
Yes, but poorly. And even then it took at least 8 years to get caught. With a little creative thinking in the software design, there’s little chance another attempt would ever be discovered.
And then there’s no admission of wrongdoing in the settlement. Wtf
I wonder if enforcing the destruction of human-viable-planet could be considered either
- Crime Against Humanity
or, an
- Act of Terrorism
They escalate to kill more of the next-generation,
then ENFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR ACTUAL CRIME, if integrity is still any part of the “law” that is held to “rule”.
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You mean rolling coal on bubba’s F350 wasn’t supposed to do that Freedom Cloud™️?
RAM is made by Dodge. F350 is Ford.
lol. Lighten up Francis.
Who’s going to get a Stripes reference?
… hundreds of thousands of 2013 to 20199 RAM 2500 and 3500 pickup trucks.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. They really have those future sales locked in.
They should also look at the 5.0 liter Cummins that Nissan used in their Titan trucks.
I’d say go a step further an look at all their tier IV engines (the ones that are currently in everything from genrators to locomotives to construct equipment). If they aren’t in compliance outside of testing that could open them up to lawsuits from customers and competitors on top of the fines.
Do generators et al have emissions standards they need to follow?
Yes, but as to what those standards are depends on the horsepower, type of use, and fuel
that will be 35cents fine which your company can pay with loans over the next 9999 years thank you
