As the industry and government were pushing diesel vehicles on the promise of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, the world is now more urgently addressing its NOx emissions which have fouled urban areas and contribute to 40,000-50,000 premature deaths a year in the UK alone from air pollution.
This week, judges decided that German cities in the heart of Europe’s biggest car market, have the right to ban diesels on their streets, and Rome’s mayor proposed an outright ban from 2024, a year before Paris expects the same.
“The bottom is falling out of the diesel car market, to the point where one of Mark Lavery, chief executive of Cambria Automobiles managing directors couldn’t persuade his own mother to buy one: “His mum is 74, has driven a diesel for the last 15 years and has now changed it for a petrol one – a higher carbon-emitting, more polluting car.”
Read the article at The Guardian.
