The German automakers trying to clean the performance of diesel engines and the Dutch want to ban them altogether. Is it a sign of the silent death of diesel engines?

The German government is set to remove the diesel engined cars from the majority of cities across the country. And it’s not the first time when old diesel engines are about to face ban under strict regulations. Since 2008, the number of cities in Germany started obeying the low emission zones called Umwelt Zone. To access these areas, your vehicle needed to have an engine with a Euro 4 pollution ranking.

Environmental Zones and Euro 4 Emission Standard

Euro four automobiles bought a green label for the windscreen to display, Euro 3 and Euro 2 cars bought a yellow and red label, respectively. These labels are alike the tax discs in the UK.

According to the website dedicated to ‘Environmental’ Zones, the modern used to be introduced in on the 1 April this year at Marburg, bringing the number up to fifty-three, with fifty-one of them demanding a green sticky label.

Diesel Gate scandal and emissions

Nevertheless, after ‘diesel gate’ grew to be international scandal last year, government and campaigners have had to confess that obsessing over CO2 emissions – a cleared fuel locally and one much liked by way of bushes or extracted from natural resources like trees and sugar canes – had led European cities into the some distance more severe crisis of the toxic pollution emitted by ‘low CO2’ diesel engines.

Sales of Diesel Engines

Diesel sales account for round half of the total UK and European Unions new car markets. For business cars – of the type that could spend all day on the roads – the diesel share is very nearly a hundred percent.

It’s no surprise that many German authorities have recoiled at outlawing any vehicle that didn’t have a Euro 6 emission ranking. In any case, there are numerous drivers available in the market, who drive today’s relatively advanced Euro 5 vehicles, and they would immediately find themselves banned from 51 city centres in the country.

It still doesn’t resolve the diesel concerns. According to the Euro 6 laws, NOx exhaust emissions must no longer upward push above 80 milligrams per kilometre. With actual-world air pollution trying out now on the horizon – replacing the hopelessly lax lab-testing regime – diesel engines are set to be embarrassed again.