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BMW is giving up on diesel fuel-engine cars and SUVs in the United States. Instead, information technology will concentrate on plug-in hybrids for drivers interested in efficient and dynamic transportation. Among automakers headquartered outside the Us, BMW and Land Rover were the leading providers of diesel vehicles, each with five,000 to 6,000 sold last year. Diesel fuel sales are slipping, down to half of 1 percent of vehicles sold, less than 100,000 out of 17.1 million sedans, SUVs and pickup trucks sold in 2022. BMW won't sell diesel fuel cars here subsequently the 2022 model year.

BMW left the door slightly ajar. At its introduction for the 2022 X5 this past week, BMW said information technology would not sell a diesel fuel version when it comes to marketplace shortly, but it would non rule out a diesel later in the X5 lifecycle.

BMW six-cylinder turbodiesel engine circa 2022.

BMW's history with diesels in the US dates to the mid-1980s and the 524td sedan with leisurely acceleration — the term is being used loosely and politely by a author who in one case autocrossed a 524td and did not finish well. BMW also sold the engine to Ford, which put it on some less-than-hot-rod Lincolns. Fast-forward to this century and BMW got it very right, first with a 3.0-liter inline-six in the 335d sedan and X5 SUV, and and then with a turbo-four diesel for the iii Serial sedan and carriage, and the X3 meaty crossover.

BMW could not overcome the bad odor hanging over all diesel fuel vehicles in the wake of the VW diesel emissions cheating scandal.

Usa Diesel Sales Brutal xx Percentage Last Twelvemonth

According to data compiled past our colleagues at HybridCars.com and Baum & Associates, a Michigan market research group, diesels, plug-in hybrids, and battery electrical vehicles (BEVs) each had roughly 100,000 sales, although EVs and PHEVs were up about 25 percent each while diesel sales tanked by nearly twenty percent. Hybrids were nearly four times as big as each of the the other alt-fuels markets, 364,000 sales, up v per centum.

Calendar 2022 Diesel fuel Sales
Ford, 44,576
Volkswagen, 10,930
Chevrolet, 10,463
Ram, 7,839
State Rover, v,707
BMW, five,211
Jaguar, four,565
GMC, 4,134
Jeep, 725
Audi, 415
Porsche, 139
Mercedes, 106
Full, 94,810
(Source: HybridCars.com / Baum & Assembly)

The 2022 X5 xDrive45e iPerformance (yes, that what BMW calls it) volition be BMW'south standard bearer for efficiency with the diesel absent.

BMW: Diesels Non Dead (Only Sleeping)

BMW announced, in answer to questions at the X5 intro, that in that location would be no diesel X5s imported to the United states when the fifth generation ships shortly. (Actually, they're not imported. They're built in South Carolina, where BMW builds almost all its SUVs, has its biggest production facility in the globe, and is America'south largest exporter of cars. In example there's confusion about why Southward Carolina's manufacturing economy is the envy of the other 49 states. Volvo is edifice cars in Due south Carolina and Boeing is building planes. Possibly not so many this week with Hurricane Florence rolling through the Carolinas.)

At the press preview, BMW spokesman Alex Schmuck told The Motorcar Connection, "We're putting all our eggs in the PHEV basket." That caused a stir, and BMW issued a description:

The final determination as to whether or not the BMW X5 diesel variant volition come up to the U.S. market place has not been made. BMW of North America continues to monitor client preferences and is prepared to adjust the production portfolio accordingly."

Since the X5 diesel is being built in the U.s.a. for all the continents, BMW technically means "whether or not the BMW X5 diesel variant built in the US will exist immune to remain in the US market."

Last year, BMW sold 3,473 X5 diesels in the US or seven per centum of the fifty,815 sold — the X5's second-all-time year ever hither. The 3 Series had 1,669 diesels sold to customers, and the v Series and X3 had a scattering each, by and large leftovers from the previous year.

Diesel fans dearest the compression-ignition applied science because the engines last forever (albeit as much as $6,000 more for pickup truck diesels), get neat gas mileage on the highway, and oft get 600-700 miles per tank. In our test bulldoze of the 3 Serial diesel, it got about 50 mpg, and did it in greater comfort than a Prius would afford.

On the flip side, gasoline engines are and so well built today that lots of them are skillful for 200,000 miles, negating diesel'south longevity advantage. Sure, a diesel could go 400,000 miles but most vehicles only terminal a decade (the boilerplate scrappage age is 11 years), so the ideal is for the engine to clothing almost just equally the rest of the motorcar does.

Now read: 2015 BMW X5 SUV review: The best thousand touring motorcar with the most technology, 2018 BMW X3 Review: the All-time Compact Crossover Money Can Buy, and (from 2022), BMW: Nosotros're keeping diesels in the US lineup. VW: Nosotros're fixing ours