Paging Doctor Diesel

An interview with Johannes-Joerg Rueger, vice-president of engineering for diesel systems at Robert Bosch Robert Bosch is a major supplier of diesel technology to automakers such as Mercedes-Benz . The German company, which has U.S. offices in Farmington Hills, Mich., supplies fuel injection systems, sensors, fuel and exhaust management systems, and so on. Perhaps its most important products these days are the systems that trap pollutants from low-sulfur diesel fuel before they get into the atmosphere, making the exhaust from these vehicles often cleaner than the air people breathe in parts of Arizona and California—and certainly in Beijing. It's pretty tough, in fact, to make a diesel-powered vehicle today without buying something from Bosch. Johannes-Joerg Rueger, vice-president of engineering for diesel systems at Bosch,... [read full story]