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People around the globe and especially in the UK are moving towards the alternative fuels and petrol engines, thus the diesel engines are facing some serious heat in the market. In the first month of 2017, there were almost 175,000 new cars sold in the UK.
According to the data from SMMT society of motor manufacturers and traders, diesel engines faced a dent of five percent in sales. Around 5 percent buyers switched over the petrol engines and alternative fuels including the electric and hybrid cars. It is a big dilemma for the diesel engines that anti-diesel people are about to push the diesel engines into the 1934 era of dinkies.
Since many years, a number of massive public health debates were circling around diesel engines, targeting the NOx emissions and particulate matters emissions. These particles were seriously connected to public health.
The arguments in these debates were exclusively fueled and further ignited by the Volkswagen Dieselgate, a massive emissions scandal or a scam. Under this VW scam, they try to cheat the public through illicit software which was helping to pass the emission tests.
This is not a sudden decrease in the sales of diesel engines because in 2016, the trend of fall in diesel sales was noticed twice. Where private registrations decreased and diesel engines faced a decrease of one percent, when new car registrations reached an all-time best.
Last month, which was the first month of the New Year 2017, the UK car market saw sales boost of just fewer than 3 percent compared to 2016. There was great news for the petrol engines that they have smelled the taste of just under 9 percent increase in the sales. Similarly a boosted increase in the AFVs or alternative fuel vehicles was recorded by 20 percent.
This is a massive increase noticed in the previous years that has ultimately changed the perspectives of the UK automotive market. With this massive increase of around 20 percent, alternative fuel vehicles have now sitting on 4.2 percent of total UK car market.
It is for the first time when alternative fuel vehicles have broken the 4 percent barrier. The government is also supporting the public to buy electric vehicles and in past years they have granted around £5000 in subsidy on every electric vehicle.
Certainly! The diesel engines are facing the heat and are going to fade in their own black smokes. A growth in both petrol and diesel engines sales has left a massive impact on the diesel sales. This part of the market has lost more than 4 percent of its territory where it was ruling.
Diesel engines have lost the market share to petrol engines and alternative fuel vehicles from around 50 percent to 45.1 percent. Around 5 percent less diesel cars sold in the past month while petrol engines are now enjoying over 50 percent share of their total sales, the middle part has been captured by the alternative fuel cars.
Last year, new car registration has set a record of highest sales but a decrease of one percent in diesel sales. However, SMMT’s chief executive Mike Hawes has already warned the manufacturers on Brexit that they are anticipating a decrease in the sales of the new cars this year.
He said that a decrease of five to six percent has been forecasted in 2017 by the marketing gurus due the vagueness linked with Brexit. Another factor noticed a weaker condition of local currency as it has faced a historical low value after Brexit in the past year.
Speaking on the sales trends in the past years and forecasted 2017 sales of new cars, he believes that the 2017 started with a good sales start in the new car market which was not expected. Keeping up by a big range of new car models introduced this year and they are even safer and cleaner than ever before but diesel engines are still lacking behind.
It’s inspiring to see alternative fueled vehicles which are taking full advantage of these positive growth factors and successfully capturing a record market share in the very first month of 2017.
It is expected that the 2017 will be the year of alternative fuel cars. Although petrol engines have initially gained the lead over the diesel engines but according to the experts, it will be a temporary lead as petrol engines always have greater emission levels than the diesel engines.
As diesel engines have seen number of good sale decades and there are still a great number of diesel cars in the UK, as they are more muscular and torque engines. Diesel engines are most suitable long haulers and give better fuel economy on long routes than petrol engines.
After a great record of growths and massive sales in 2016, according to the market experts, some freshening is anticipated as the economy will move towards stability and interest rates are likely to remain low. All these factors will collectively push the market into a pleasing environment that will help in boosting the overall sales. In all this market scenario, the future of diesel engines is still a big question mark, it is really an unpredictable situation that how market will behave in future and are there any chances for the diesel engines?
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