New engine oil category will play a key role in emissions battle

The oil that flows through diesel engine galleries has little in common with the fluids of days gone by, largely because of evolving emissions standards. When exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) systems were rushed to market in 2002, CI-4 oil had to contend with lubricant-thickening soot; an interim CI-4 Plus category was introduced when those soot […]