Dieselautos in Deutschland und den USA: Zum Verhaltnis von Technologie, Konsum und Politik, 1949-2005. Transatlantische Historische Studien, Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington, vol. 46

摘要

In his revised Ph.D. dissertation under advisor Ulrich Wengenroth, Munich, Christopher Neumaier compares the success of diesel cars in Germany with the relatively lower acceptance and sales of diesel cars in the United States up to 2005. In Germany, diesel engines have been used in cars since 1936 (though only by Mercedes until 1974). In 1981,10 percent of all cars had diesel engines. This increased to 40 percent in 2003 and to nearly 50 percent in 2010.