Fun fact, Rudolph Diesel originally designed the engine for farmers to run on vegetable oil or coal dust, two fuels that farmers would normally already have on the farm, and as far as vegetable oil, could even produce themselves.

The background music isn't loud enough! I almost heard someone talking in the video!

As a diesel tech and someone who is very involved with the diesel trade, it boggles my mind why there hasn't been more research into tiny 2 cylinder diesel hybrids in cars. It would be small enough to not produce much emissions and be hands down the cleanest and most efficient thing on the road

lol the dude talking about all semis and long haulers going electric as soon as late 2020s is more than extremely optimistic haha

the thing is i wonder how many car companies have cheated emmisions tests in both petrol and diesel cars without being caught?

I had an 89 vw jetta turbo diesel and when I got it, that thing failed emissions by a larger margin. So I grounded the car and converted it to biodiesel myself. I had it tested again about a year later and the lady couldn't believe it. The lowest emissions she had ever seen on a diesel engine. She tested it 3 times and even called someone else out with a different tester who tested it several times and it passed with flying colors every single time. Diesels originally used plant based oil when they were released but big oil personally made sure they wouldn't stay like that.

I loved my VW TDI/IDI's ..and manual transmissions. Great vehicles.

Had a diesel pickup from Isuzu for 20+years. Love it and drove it till the timing chain snapped. By then it was rusting out, but 40+ mpg in city and 50+ mpg on the highway was something I don't see anywhere else in any car company. Named it Ruth after the white dragon of the Pern series.

So, they're not really disappearing.

I wish the background music was higher. I hate to hear people talking in videos.

Imagine Electric car companies screwing up your car battery performance with a software update. Like they do with smart phones 😂

10:00 "diesel is common in public transport" and shows a German electric train

When diesel engines were catching on in the USA. The oil companies raised the price of diesel fuel around 30% above the price of gas.

plot twist: it won't disappear

The development of diesel engines into the modern units you find in passenger cars today has come at another cost to one of their strengths, lack of complexity or more to-the-point reliability. Fully mechanically controlled diesel engines would run forever if properly maintained and you did not need a Ph.D. in electronic diagnostics to service or fix them. The humble Mercedes 123 series of the 70s and 80s when used as a taxi with the four-cylinder and five-cylinder diesel would return one million kilometers regularly before overhaul. Many would go even further and the London Taxi fleet had similar data using Perkins mechanical diesel. I commonly see diesel vehicles of less than ten years of age being scrapped because the repair costs make it not worth fixing and it is all the electronic and pollution wizardry that makes it so coupled with building the engines ever lighter and less robust.

I've been driving gasoline cars all my life, since the late 80s. I just bought my first diesel, one of the last "super"diesel cars available, a 380 hp 75 torque BMW 5 series, and it's been tuned to 440/85. This thing is absolutely wonderful. I plan on driving it for at least 10 years.

Well, diesels ARE much less flammable when hit by an armor-piercing round. Historically, this is very important to Germans.

Funny thing is when R. Diesel first showcased the Diesel engine at the world fair, it was running on Peanut oil. Seems they are slowly getting back to where he had originally started. lol.

Well researched. I liked that they expressed the scepticism towards electric trucks. I don't think we'll ever see long range trucks go electric. The underlying problem is that electric trucks would need to be 70+% battery, leaving only 30-% for cargo. Unfortunately, the batteries are pretty close to the theoretical limit of energy density, so they won't improve drastically from where they're now. The only sensible electrification for trucks would be them going hybrid.

Imagine a future were there’s underground diesel community that takes deep frier grease to keep there cars alive.

Apart from outboards, diesel engines are exclusively used in marine vessels due to avoiding petrol's explosive fumes, and larger carbon monoxide emissions.

I learned that the first diesel engines ran on peanut oil, so maybe we should start trying that out.

I have had a Citroen C4 1.6 115 Diesel for over 7 years now and never had a problem with it. It is serviced every year and I use a fuel additive every time I fill it up and it still drives like the day I bought it and has never failed an MOT. Best car I have ever had.

i drive a dieselgate-era VW TDI, and i love it! yeah Volkswagen really messed up, but they (eventually) took responsibility for what happened and fixed all of the cars. i don’t plan on getting rid of it any time soon.

And not a single diesel engine was shown in this video.. great work cnbc..

yea..Vin diesel is disappearing from Fast and furious series too

Bio-diesel is very controversial. I suspect that, at least with current production methods, it takes more fossil fuels to produce fertilizers for growing the bio-diesel crops than is saved by using the bio fuel. The market for bio-diesel has caused a sharp increase in the clearing of tropical forests for planting the required crops. It is also leading to an increase in food costs as farmers now have an incentive to grow bio fuel crops.

We have two Jetta TDIs and we LOVE them! We get 45-55 mpgs with them. Never going to turn them loose!

This is 2021....I'm still waiting on the flying cars.

I always love the no emissions statement about electric cars like thier charging power magically appears from flying unicorns.

My first car was an Isuzu Diesel Deluxe Coupe! In 1982 I was easily getting 42 mpg around town!!!! Loved that little car! In the summer it was so quite that I had to look at my Tachometer to see if it was running!!!

Over 250,000 miles and still getting 40 MPG with my Mercedes Diesel. Great cars.

Own two diesels and they are both fantastic. I'm expecting to get 30+ years of life out of them. My diesel BMW car puts out outstanding power after tuning.. nearly 400 hp to the wheels and 600lb of torque yet can still achieve 40mpg and go 600miles on a tank. On the drag strip it will pull a 12.6 second 1/4 mile at 111mph. I have yet to see a gasoline or electric car that can match the range, efficiency, and performance of diesel. Electric has the torque and efficiency but not the range. Gas can lay down the power with a big V8 at the cost of efficiency and range.

10:00 That's a German ICE high speed train. They are fully electric :-)

I really miss my Jetta diesel. It was a fantastic little ride. With the amount of driving I do. It was fantastic on sipping fuel.

I have a 2014 VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI, and it gets an honest 41-42 MPG around town. I check it every fill up. This car has been adjusted by VW after the scandal. Previously I had a 2001 VW Golf TDI. Four years ago, I sold it to a neighbor with 326,000 miles on it. It is still in use. The only problem it had was a leaking fuel pump that was caused when sulphur was eliminated from all diesel fuel. The fuel pump was rebuilt with different gaskets and the car was good to go. I expect to keep my 2014 for many years.

Why not invest into Bio-Diesels like Sunflower, Vegetable and Hemp. Most Diesels engines need little to none changes to be able to use Bio-Diesels. Plus they put out much lower emissions.

I don't think diesel going anywhere anytime soon

What's never talked about is the countless number of times that long haul truckers keep their engines running for 6 hours every night while they sleep.

I had an old Chevy truck with a diesel V8 in it. No computers or turbos, no DPF, just a simple engine. i used to get rid of old oils around the house in that old truck. I'd fill it almost full with diesel then add transmission fluid. When I had a bottle of old vegetable oil in the kitchen, I'd pour it in my truck. Never hurt it. I miss that old truck. Had it been a 4wd I never would have sold it.

Why does the narrator keep showing oil going in to the engine every time he talks about putting diesel into the car

short story: they're not there.. saved you 14 mins

We bought a 2017 Chevy Volt in March 2020, right before everything shut down. I love it. I hardly ever have to get gas - only when we go on a longer trip. It goes about 50 miles on electric. We have had solar for 20 years. So most of our fuel is basically free.

Not only are they more fuel efficient but also more cost effcient especially in the long term. The longevity and reliability is worth it to me.

I'm driving a diesel as a daily driver, and I love it!

Volkswagen Passat TDI (diesel model) one of the best cars I've driven, very well designed (interior) motor was awesome made gas feel aweful. Shame about the Volkswagen scandal

When refining oil for gasoline, one of the FIRST steps is to get it to a diesel grade state. Costs less to make than gasoline and gets better mileage. Moral of the story: When it comes to energy there is no Utopia, only massive greed and the ability to position a product to "sound better" environmentally. Even EVs are powered by coal burning utilities.

im digging the beat in the background

I would love an episode about CNBC and how they found their UKposts game. Most of their content is interesting and something I never even think about.

Why is everyone trying to force electric car on everyone

I had a Diesel VW Golf for 8 years, and it was absolutely fantastic. Now own a newer petrol Golf GTI. It's great fun, but I still sometimes miss the diesel engine. That little 1.6 TDI engine had way more power than any newer petrol 1.6 engines on motorways. I recently drove a modern 1.4 petrol Vauxhall Corsa, and on paper it had faster 0-60mph than my diesel golf. But it absolutely struggled when it came to motorway driving. Overtaking would be impossible sometimes.

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Diesel engines efficiency can not be denied .

Haha as soon as the car manufacturers started actually making low emission diesel engines, politicians want to ban it.

Vorfor skall dere ha vinnmøller som er laget i kompositt materialer og så blir det slitt av luften og så må det byttes ut og norr bladene slites blanne kompositt materialene fra vindmølle vinger med luften så puster du det nedi dine lunger vorfor?

I love diesel engine cars. It gives a smooth and sensational drive. Very efficient and powerful. Manufacturers and scientists have to think of ways to keep them alive with less carbon emission or plant more trees so that this emission doesn't matter to the environment.

I am driving Passat with a diesel engine as a daily and i love it!

Sacrificing air quality? Did everyone forget what the big cities smelled like just 10 years ago?

3:19 -- when you said "amount", did you mean volume, weight, moles, or mass? If volume, then at what temperature and altitude?

At 11:30, talking about the newest generation of diesels with particulate reduction. And catalytic systems to keep them clean, that’s the first things that get ripped off that new GM, Ford, or Ram pickups and tossed in the trash. I know a few guys with diesel trucks for towing, and they brag about the ‘tune up chips’ installed for more power after the emission controls were removed. It’s so easy it’s as if the legacy companies designed the vehicles with removing emission controls in mind. Few places check emission controls on older vehicles.

Only in America. In South Asia, diesel is extremely popular.

Shame on CNBC for not naming all of the other automakers who were involved in Dieselgate!! Volkswagen, Fiat Chrysler, Jeep, Nissan, Renault, Mercedes-Benz, Audi & Porsche

I have 190 D 5 speeds, 1984. It's a beauty!!

I love my 2005 deisel Sprinter, almost 500k miles on it and I'm still getting 22 MPG carrying over a ton of cargo!

I couldn’t believe the amount of petrol powered SUVs and pickups when I visited the US, the mileage must be appalling on those things . They sounded great tho 😂

I don't really think i'll be switching from diesel any time soon

It takes more oil to make a Gallon of Diesel than a gallon of gas. 47% of 42 gallons is 19-3/4 gallons of gasoline per barrel of oil. 23% of 42 gallons is 9.6 gallons of diesel/fuel oil per barrel of crude oil. The Ratio is almost 2-1 . 42 Gallon Barrel makes 20 Gallons of gas . 42 Gal Barrel make 10 Gallons of diesel.

One of the current Jeep options is a diesel engine. I saw one the other day. Pretty cool in the Jeep Wrangler.

4:52 "But seldom found on sports cars or race cars". They surely haven't heard about Audi R10, R15 and R18 or the Peugeot 908 HDi Le Mans prototypes.

I’ll keep right on driving my diesels, thank you. It’s a good thing Diesel engines last basically forever with proper care and maintenance.

Having driven and fixed both petrol and diesel engines, i can say i do prefer diesel. One thing people seem to completely forget about is just how clean modern diesel engines are. Euro 5 and euro 6 emmissions standards are ridiculously clean, to the point that you wont smell them when they pass you on the street. Compare that to diesels made 10 and 15 years previous. Smoke, stink and far higher emmissions like soot, nox, hydrocarbons just to name a few. Petrol engines havent been cleaned up a huge amount, not to the extent that diesel got. But if they really were worked on extensively they could get extremely clean, way cleaner than the engines we have on the roads now

My Golf TDI with the manual transmission would go nearly three times the range of the longest-range Tesla currently available on one 16-gallon tank of diesel. It also didn't have to be shifted down at all to cruise over many mountain passes with its available torque. I wish they remained a cleaned-up option.

i love my diesel truck. 630,000 miles and going strong. straight pipe exhaust ,no emissions 500hp at the wheel. that cummins is a beast.

Long live the Deisel engined car! I've driven diesels for years now and will never switch back to petrol. There is no denying that a well maintained diesel engine will last way longer than comparable petrol engines. That alone makes them much more cost effective. Then there is the fact that I get many more miles to the gallon than the comparable petrol engine. Even allowing for the artificially higher price per litre of diesel here in the UK, I've calculated that my mileage is cheaper than my petrol powered neighbour.

In Australia their very common still Toyota 4wds have diesel and a decent amount of suv aswell across the range.

The death of diesel in standard passenger vehicles was definitely the VW dieselgate scandal. My dad had one of those cars. We got pieces of mail from VW about the compensation and how to turn it in if he didn't want to keep it. Obviously the compensation was VERY enticing and he sold it back. It was ~$14,000 for the car (2012 Jetta TDI) plus ~$5600 in compensation, so he got nearly $20k for it. He rolled that money into a gasoline powered 2015 Honda Crosstour EX-L and never thought about diesel again.

I got 24k from VW when they bought back a diesel I had paid 4000 for salvage title

Aaaahhh, in eastern europe people will NEVER, NEVER get rid of diesel

Shortly after Dieselgate erupted in Volkswagen, many Renault cars exceeded the Euro 6 limits for nitrogen oxides (Renault Captur 1.5 DCI and Renault Kadjar 1.6 DCI have exceeded the Euro 6 limit for nitrogen oxides by up to 16 times).

Our 2015 vw jetta gets consistently 60mpg ,we bought it used in 2017 for 20 thousand canadian, after 5 years ,I was offered 16 thousand even though it has 200 thousand miles.

They don't deliver a great deal of "power" to the wheels... THEY DELIVER TORQUE. Rotational force.

In the late 1980's my folks had a VW Rabbit Diesel with a five-speed stick shift. It wasn't much on acceleration, but it would cruise at 75 mph on the interstate all day.

As a euro-american I am sad to see very limited options on diesel vehicles. I think every hybrid vehicle available in 2023 in the USA should have the option of a diesel engine. Especially anything bigger than midsize SUV's and midsize pick up trucks.

Very educational.. Love it!

Not in Europe,nobody buys petrol cars in my country bcs fuel is expensive

My e220d does 1200km on one tank easily. It emits less co2 per km than petrol cars. And the Nox emissions are handled by the scr system.

I’ve always wondered, if diesel and gasoline are so terrible, then why do the healthiest grass and trees grow by Roads and Expressways ?

In eu, more specific in ireland most of new cars sold are diesel. They not disappearing at all. It takes ages to disappear

Still seen in most farm and construction equipment. More like ALL...

i tried filling up my diesel suv with vege oil. it runs just fine😂

I just came across this video and noticed at 2:13 the guy is putting the pistons in the engine backwards with the rod ends to the top of the block, that is really weird.

I love my diesel inspite of a gasoline and an electric car in my garage. I love my Audi Q5 TDI over my VW jetta and Hyundai Kona for long trips . The diesel is an absolute torque monster with great efficiency.

As usual, this channel poses a question, gives some history then talks around and around and around the issue without EVER actually arriving at a conclusion. In a way it’s absolutely extraordinary; 14 minutes to say nothing.

Diesel will stay for now. In some form. Long range hauls all to prevent city pollution. That’s where electric comes in but they will always be a diesel core. It’s gas efficient

10:17 I recognized Texas canyon on I10 in AZ near the NM border. Drive that way often!

Nice video! I really liked it Even the comments were interesting to read, however some readers and drivers don't understand the issue here Yes, Diesel is efficient compared to gasoline. To burn the respective diesel, you need air. From chemistry, we remember that air contains more nitrogen than oxygen, that's why we get the NOx out the exhaust pipe (both gasoline and diesel) To remove the NOx effect, an O2 tank should be installed in each car and replace the natural air intake. Sound kinda of expensive, right? I mean, imagine having to fill up another tank, beside the one with fuel :))) (or an accident even worse) To remove particles, you need DPFs and GPFs, which should be more evolved MORE IMPORTANT: people shouldn't go to work by car in the city, unless you leave somewhere outside of it. Company should give cars to their employees, simply because they deserve it, they should give cars to those that need to stay on the road Electric vehicles are OK only for cities. If you need to go outside, and avoid headaches that you will be left on the highway, take a petrol/diesel powered car Big vehicles (bigger than 2.0) shouldn't be driven in the cities/towns. You don't need that kind of power in a city/town, unless you only want to compensate for something smaller ;) Electric vehicles should also be used in trucks and ships. Let's see them there in action, with low autonomy or solar powered Why is Europe the first to adopt such trend of EVs? Let's try with America, Africa, India-Indonesia-China(especially these three, where the pollution sky-rockets)

Love our diesel SUV but won’t buy another car that needs flammable liquid to run again. Our next vehicle will be electric.

10:00 „...much of public transit“ *proceeds to show electric train*

6:27 Dieselgate started in 2007, iirc, not 2015. I have a 2006 VW Jetta TDI and it still runs like new, even with close to 140,000 miles on it. This beautiful and great car was made before diesel gate. It’s a shame that Dieselgate happened, but I don’t want to go to a normal gas car. Yes, diesel is more expensive in price but it lasts longer. I wish it was cheaper though. Love my car!

With the massive developments that have been in diesel engines over the past 20 years, it is a shame to see diesel being phased out. Today’s Euro 6 classified diesel engines have extremely low emissions and are very durable so will withstand very high mileages. Even if diesel sales are plummeting, todays diesel cars will live on for another 10-15 years or more. And in heavy duty vehicles, esp long-range vehicles, diesel will still be the fuel of choice (fossil/biodiesel mix) until fuel cell (hydrogen) and possibly battery electric solutions are commonly in place.