Green Options » audi http://greenoptions.com/tag/audi Posts tagged 'audi' Wed, 21 May 2008 11:32:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Clean Diesel Cars Coming to US This Fall: 2008-2010 Timeline http://gas2.org/2008/05/21/clean-diesel-cars-coming-to-us-this-fall-2008-2010-timeline/ http://gas2.org/2008/05/21/clean-diesel-cars-coming-to-us-this-fall-2008-2010-timeline/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 11:32:01 +0000 Clayton B. Cornell http://gas2.org/2008/05/21/clean-diesel-cars-coming-to-us-this-fall-2008-2010-timeline/ 2009 Jetta SportWagen, clean diesel

New diesels will get better mileage and have cleaner emissions than your average car. Pictured above: 2009 Jetta SportWagen 2L TDI Clean Diesel.

Later this year (see the timeline below), we will finally begin to see an influx of new model diesels in the United States. While diesels make up 50% of the market share of vehicles in Europe, they’re still trying to shrug off the stigma of being dirty, noisy beasts here in the US. So what changed?

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]]> http://gas2.org/2008/05/21/clean-diesel-cars-coming-to-us-this-fall-2008-2010-timeline/feed/ Audi TDI Place Second in European LeMans http://gas2.org/2008/04/08/audi-tdi-place-second-in-european-lemans/ http://gas2.org/2008/04/08/audi-tdi-place-second-in-european-lemans/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:12:54 +0000 Benjamin Jones http://gas2.org/2008/04/08/audi-tdi-place-second-in-european-lemans/

I’ve posted in the past about a possible hybrid LeMans car and performance diesels, but today there is some actual news on some non-gasoline race cars from Audi. As reported by AutoBlogGreen, Audi recently took second place in their first showing with the diesel-powered cars in the European LeMans (this is after having raced these cars since 2006 outside of Europe).

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