The UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (or SMMT for short) has compiled a report from which the conclusion was drawn that modern diesels are a whopping 21 percent cleaner than in 2003, in terms of tailpipe emissions, while the actual progress in efficiency is even higher: a 27 percent recorded improvement.
The study, published on March 13, explains that the proliferation of more precise common rail injection systems, start-stop, particulate filters and other novel ideas from the same realm have played their significant part in achieving the stated figures.
Peter Fouquet, President the UK branch of Bosch, the Germany-based parts giant, said, “Motorists today benefit from much cleaner diesel cars than those that were on the market even ten years ago. As diesel car sales continue to rise, we are focused on constantly innovating new technologies that help reduce emissions from diesel cars and make them cheaper to run.”
The next frontier now are the diesel-hybrids, a sector of the market where Bosh is also present, and it believes the tech “can reduce fuel consumption in diesel cars by around 40 percent and will help manufacturers meet the European 2020 emissions target for new cars, which is at CO2 emissions of 95g/km,” according to HybridCars.
By Andrei Nedelea
Note: Diesel-hybrids pictured
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