why can’t we have diesel hybrids?
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The diesel emissions scandals have more or less destroyed the market for diesel cars – there isn’t enough of a market for diesel cars right now for a single manufacturer to be making one for the US market. Diesel engines are also more expensive than gas, while hybrid engines are significantly more expensive than non-hybrids. So you’re basically making a more expensive version of something that there already is no market for.
You also have to question who the target market of a diesel hybrid would even be in an emissions scandal free world. While diesels produce a bit less CO2 than gas engines, they produce hundreds of times as much organic pollutants, which are the cause of smog. So while they’re more efficient than gas, they’re not more environmentally friendly. And people looking to buy environmentally friendly cars are the target market that is willing to pay the already steep premium to get a hybrid vehicle.
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