Are clean diesel vehicles more “eco-conscious” than hybrids?
It depends on the application and your point of view. The advantage of Clean Diesel is this: combine a significantly more efficient and dependable engine system with a cleaner, more efficient fuel and then add new technology around ignition and emissions systems. What you get is an engine that uses less fuel, burns as clean – or cleaner – than regular gasoline and avoids that messy dead battery storage issue. That’s enough to make the editors at Green Car Journal award the Jetta TDI as its 2009 Green Car of the Year.
