If a trip from one place to another is 50 miles and a gallon of gasoline is necessary to cover that distance in a gasoline vehicle, only 6.5 gallons are necessarily using a diesel engine. The second factor that separates diesel vs gasoline powered engines — a.k.a. “heat engines” — is thermal efficiency.
Fuel costs and efficiency. Due to increased air compression, diesel engines also operate at higher temperatures than gasoline engines. This results in a more efficient conversion of thermal energy to mechanical energy. Diesel engines are about 15–40% more efficient than gas engines and diesel fuel is about 15% cheaper than gasoline.
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