Dodge and Cummins clean up in US pick-up market

Date: Thursday, February 15, 2007

In the USA Dodge has launched what it claims is the cleanest mass-production diesel pick-up available in North America so far as emissions are concerned.

The new Dodge Ram Heavy Duty's 6.7-litre Cummins engine is reckoned to be the first to meet the Environmental Protection Agency's new emission standards for vehicles in its class in all 50 states. They're not due for implementation until 2010.

“Our diesel meets the world's toughest emission standards for NOx,” says Cummins president and chief operating officer, Joe Loughrey. It uses an absorber catalyst to reduce NOx (oxides of nitrogen) by as much as 90 per cent, says the engine maker, and a filter to eliminate almost all particulate emissions.

The diesel is equipped with a cooled exhaust gas recirculation system plus a high-flow electronically controlled variable geometry turbocharger.

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