GM and general automovie stuff.

[Guest guest]

Excellent! I'm working in the car industry right now as part of my year in

industry. My reasoning is this.

This company is an automotive supplier, so by working in a company like this

I hope to promote greener technology (to sell to people like GM). I leave

the guilt to the end user. So far I've worked on electronic throttle

control (or drive by wire as you may know it), which improves emitions and

fuel economy. I hope to become involved in Diesel technology to promote the

use of veggie oil or bio oils in diesel engines.

Diesels are better engine choice for all those considering buying. More

efficient, less polluting and last longer than the petrol counterparts.

There's not one positive thing petrol beats diesel on that I can think of.

I agree with what you say SpaceV though. We need to move away from motor

way shopping and retail parks and towards localisation. I think it should

be illegal to use cars for going anything under 5 miles in a built up area.

The way the automotive industry is going, and what I've seen, Emitions

legalisation is forcing car to be less polluting (hence 40% of new cars

being diesels). Now all we need is less of them. Car share anyone?

 

RM

 

> Regards,

>

> Rowan McCartney

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> Electronic Throttle Control

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[Guest guest]

Interesting - good luck in your crusade!

 

I'm no expert on this, but I thought sulpherous emissions were worse

for deisels, and maybe more carcinogenic? A lot of people don't like

the fact that you can see the smoke coming out from deisel cars, but

that's probably a bit misleading.

I've heard though that you can switch to biodeisel with no or little

modification.

 

What is biodeisel?

--

Rob

 

PS A rough idea for a cutlure jam: " The only good throttle on a car

is around the driver's neck! Lift it or lose it! "

 

vegan-network, " Mccartney, Rowan (R.N.) " <rmccar14@v...>

wrote:

 

> There's not one positive thing petrol beats diesel on that I can

think of.