Driving the Future with Clean Diesel

The 4.2 million heavy-duty diesel trucks (Class 3-8) introduced from 2007 through 2015 saved the American consumer:

• 29M tonnes of CO2; 2.9 billion gallons of diesel; 69 million barrels of crude oil; 7.5M tonnes of NOx; 218,000 tonnes of PM

These reductions are equivalent to:

• Removing the CO2 emissions from 6.1 million light-duty vehicles from the road for one year.
              • NOx emissions from all light-duty vehicles for two years and PM for six years

• The CO2 emissions from 1.2 billion home barbeque cylinders

• Carbon sequestration from 23.7 million acres of forests for one year
              • This is an equivalent forest roughly the size of Indiana

• Creating a solar farm three times size of Washington, DC for one year

• Societal savings of $1.1B based on U.S. government value of CO2 ($39/ton)

• Roughly 25 percent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for sweet crude

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The 4.5 million light-duty diesels introduced from 2005 through 2015 saved the American consumer:

• 70M tonnes of CO2

• 11B gallons of gasoline

• 261M barrels of crude oil

These reductions are equivalent to:

• Removing 14.7 million vehicles from the road for one year

• Power from 19,000 wind turbines (about half of the installed U.S. wind capacity) for one year

• Creating a solar farm the 5-6 times the size of Washington, DC for one year

• Carbon sequestration from 57.4 million acres of forests for one year
              • This is an equivalent forest double the size of New York State

• Total societal savings of $2.7B based on U.S. government value of CO2 ($39/ton)

• Total oil reduction roughly equivalent to the entire Strategic Petroleum Reserve for sweet crude

Conservative estimates of fuel savings and CO2 reductions for new light-duty diesel engines introduced between 2013-2025 will save American consumers an additional:

• 116M tonnes of CO2; 19B gallons of gasoline; 454 million barrels of crude oil; and

• Societal savings of $4.3B based on U.S. government value of CO2 ($39/ton)