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Mercedes : Bluetec for all
26th October, 2007
After recently Volkswagen from the jointly with DaimlerChrysler last year in the United States started Bluetec-Kampagne on cleaner diesel had passed, Mercedes-Benz offers the procedure now all car manufacturers. Although they hold with the "Initiative for the cleanest diesel engine in the world" on track, they say. With the E 300 Bluetec is the brand with the star cleaning the exhaust from December 2007 the first in Europe to offer, which originally only for the coming year. But "so far as all major inventions of vehicle technology, Mercedes-Benz, the innovative Bluetec-Verfahren other automobile manufacturers available," tells the Stuttgart company.
"We want the gasoline engine as efficiently as diesel engines and diesel as clean as gasoline," says Dr. Thomas Weber, a board member of DaimlerChrysler AG for research and development. "When Bluetec diesel is by far the best technology in order to achieve these objectives," says Weber.
Bluetec is a modular gas cleaning system, which developed in two versions. One method complements the already standard combination of oxidation catalysts and particulate filters by a special method to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. This technique has since October 2006 in the USA on the market.. The second version is based on the injection of "AdBlue" in the exhaust stream. This aqueous urea solution causes the nitrogen oxides in a downstream SCR catalytic converter (Selective Catalytic Reduction) to harmless nitrogen is reduced.
With the invention of Bluetec-Verfahrens and development to production stage in the new E 300 Bluetec Mercedes-Benz underline his role as a global technology leader, they say. The procedure will now be available to other producers, "so in this way the rapid spread of this for sustainable mobility technology to achieve important." Freilich nicht kostenlos. Admittedly not free. “ It is also customary, says product spokesman Norbert Giesen compared automotive industry online and adds: "The price is a matter of negotiation."
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