Are we seeing new diesels in the SUV market?

I am hearing about Dodge bringing out a diesel-electric Ram pickup?

What about the diesel Jeep Liberty or the diesel LR Discovery?

[email protected] (N9NWO) wrote:
> I am hearing about Dodge bringing out a diesel-electric Ram pickup?
>
> What about the diesel Jeep Liberty or the diesel LR Discovery?

Isn't Jeep's Liberty with the something rail diesel coming real soon now?

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[email protected] (Dan Birchall) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> [email protected] (N9NWO) wrote:
> > I am hearing about Dodge bringing out a diesel-electric Ram pickup?
> >
> > What about the diesel Jeep Liberty or the diesel LR Discovery?
>
> Isn't Jeep's Liberty with the something rail diesel coming real soon now?



Yes. They are "common rail" engines. This means that the fuel is
maintained at injection pressure in a high pressure passage and an
electrically actuated injector simply admits the fuel-the energy for
injection pressure comes from a mechanical pump driven by the engine.
Cummins PT and Detroit Diesel mechanical and DDEC are also "common
rail" engines, but the actual energy for injection-several
horsepower-comes via the engine camshaft which actuates the injector
which pressurizes the fuel.

The Italians, surprisingly enough,were the people behind this.