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• Days before the launch of ACERT at the recent Mid-America Truck Show In Louisville, Cat executives remained convinced that the decision to abandon FOR in favour of ACERT was the right move. Its view was that there were too many unknowns regarding EGR's effect on fuel consumption and overall efficiency.
Its answer was to create a new combustion process based on existing turbocharger and fuel injection systems that would provide the emissions, fuel efficiency and performance platforms until at least 2010. It admits more than US$500m was spent on bringing ACERT to reality, but Cat executives insist that ACERT will prolong "the viability of the diesel engine for many years to come".
As for the final bill for non-compliance, several Cat sources said that at $4,000-5,000 per engine, it could be as high as $100m, maybe more. However, Caterpillar's willingness to incur fines has had short-term gains as well. While many US buyers declined to buy EGR engines, Cat's continued supply of nonemission compliant engines created a brief but buoyant sales windfall.