{"id":5238,"date":"2013-07-01T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2013-07-01T05:48:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:48:36","slug":"new-us-survey-says-diesel-cost-of-ownership-lower-than-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5238","title":{"rendered":"New US survey says diesel cost of ownership lower than gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.autoblog.com\/2013\/06\/30\/new-us-survey-says-diesel-cost-of-ownership-lower-than-gas\/\">Jeremy Korzeniewski<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s cheaper to drive a diesel-powered vehicle than a gas-powered vehicle over the course of three to five years, according to a new study commissioned by Robert Bosch LLC \u2013 a company that makes plenty of diesel engine parts \u2013 using data compiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselforum.org\/files\/dmfile\/20130311_CD_UMTRITCOFinalReport_dd2017.pdf\">The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute<\/a>. The savings stem not just from improved fuel efficiency but also overall fuel costs and better retention of value, and take into account the added purchase price of a diesel engine over its gasoline counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, &#8220;most of the savings are in the $2000 to $6000 range.&#8221; The highest return on investment comes from the Mercedes-Benz GL-Class. Buyers of a diesel GL will save a shocking $13,514 over the course of three years and $15,619 in five. Another star performer is the Volkswagen Golf TDI, which can save its owner more than $5,000 over three years. The full study can be found in PDF form at this link, and a press release with a summary of some of its findings can be seen below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Korzeniewski: It&#8217;s cheaper to drive a diesel-powered vehicle than a gas-powered vehicle over the course of three to five years, according to a new study commissioned by Robert Bosch LLC \u2013 a company that makes plenty of diesel engine parts \u2013 using data compiled by The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. The savings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}