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Originally Posted by 74-911
IIRC during the Clinton administration the govt. poured billions in funding to "Detroit" to develop diesel hybrids (and left the japanese out). The stringent diesel emissions passed in 2001 or so by CARB effectively killed the development of the diesel hybrid as the available diesel technology could not meet the new requirements.
Then, when W was elected he declared hydrogen energy cells to be the answer and killed all remaining funding on the diesel hybrids.
Don't hold your breath waiting for your hydrogen energy cell car and a place to fill it up.
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Which is partly the reason for there being few if no new small diesel engines for consumer vehicles from the Big Three. I believe many of the diesel engines for American cars are produced outside the U.S.