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Vehicles are bought and sold on longer time horizons than the shortage, diesel pickups were always somewhat of a rounding error and they kinda fell out of fashi
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
Vehicles are bought and sold on longer time horizons than the shortage, diesel pickups were always somewhat of a rounding error and they kinda fell out of fashion hard about 5yr ago when emissions components got bad/numerous enough that the TCO didn't pencil out vs gas trucks. The OEMs saw this (the emissions driven increased TCO of diesel, not the shortage) coming ~10yr ago rolled out a new generation of gas engines for pickups, vas and MDTs which hit market in the last couple years so if anything this will drive a faster transition back to gasoline engines in those applications.