List of ecomods automakers can use, ranked by cost/effectiveness

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

...the current move toward SIDI (spark ignition direct injection) engines isn't shown, but typically yields about 7-11% FE increase.

Isn't that the item :
Stoichiometric Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) ?

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by ecofreak

Gasoline to Diesel engine conversion.

On this side of the Atlantic, diesels are designed and made as such, they're not converted gasoline engines.
As such, they don't cost the claimed 5900 USD premium over gasoline.

Usually there is a diesel-premium on the European market, as the extra cost to purchase one is offset by the lower FC and / or the lower diesel price, but it is far lower than that.

[Frank Lee]

Originally Posted by ecofreak

Gasoline to Diesel engine conversion. Gasoline engines can run diesel as long as the pistons are comparatively stronger, the fuel injection system being solenoid powered, and a few other parts which had been made to be just over their tolerance to internal combustion in gasoline.

I really don't understand how you could derive these costs. Things like these have to cost little to nothing when in the near (to the point of near unlawful) vertical monopoly that is a car industry. Take Fuji heavy industries, for example. They already own the machines required to manufacture car parts like this, and have enough money invested in their respective raw materials' futures, so they always get an agreeable price on the raw materials, and the cost of each part would therefore remain low and constant.