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Originally Posted by jamesqf
On the other hand, you have two factors in play here. One, as discussed above, is the "real truck" buyers, who (just like their oversized pickup-driving counterparts) are willing to pay the extra fuel cost for a truck that looks "tough" and "manly".
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Yeah, there are always going to be people out there who are going to be stupid, but you don't need to outlaw stupid. Natural forces have a tendency to take care of that. If trucking company A spends thousands and thousands more on fuel than trucking company B, company B will have higher profits and grow. company A will loose money and eventually go bankrupt.
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Second, once you have a significant market for those advanced systems, they get mass-produced, and the cost falls, just as with EFI & turbos on passenger cars. But unless there's some impetus to mass produce them, they remain expensive specialty items that few people buy.
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There is an impetus to mass produce them: profit. If a company can come up with a better technology and come up with a way to make it affordable then they will gain an advantage over they're lower-tech copmpetitors and make more money. Look at what's happened with Detroit Diesel's new DD15 engine with a turbo compound. It gets better FE than competitors and their market share is increasing.