New fuel additive for reduced emissoins and better mileage.

[rn79870]

This is one of those threads that doesn’t belong anywhere, but to overlook it would be criminal.

When I was in high school I was caught with 2 buddies pissing in a moron’s gas tank at a school football game. The cop let us go because he was laughing too hard to do much about it. Skip ahead a hundred years to 2008. Mercedes, BMW, VW and Audi all think I might have been on to something that night.

Urea injection will finally arrive in the U.S. when Mercedes-Benz launches fifty-state-legal diesel versions of its ML320, GL320 and R320 BlueTec models.

The Mercedes vehicles are using a 3.0L turbo diesel V-6 putting out 210 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque, while using urea injection (like the diesel BMWs and upcoming diesel VW Touareg and Audi Q7) to almost completely eliminate NOx emissions. Called AdBlue, it is a solution of 2/3 water and 1/3 urea that reacts with NOx to create nitrogen and water.

The urea is contained in a 7-gallon (8.5-gallon in the larger GL) tank that should only need refilling about every 15,000 miles. In addition to the urea NOx treatment system, the trio also have diesel particulate filters to eliminate almost all of the soot.

Well, I can see how I’d refill the urea tank if need be, but I’m wondering how a soccer mom might refill hers. Whatever, be sure to carry a camera.

[G'd up]

......... is this serious

[danielekfuj]

why aint this in gen chat?