Cars are as good as iron without fuel. Thus, it makes a huge difference what fuel is the car's model is based on. The fuel options that prevail around are petrol, diesel, hydrogen, electric or solar panel. But the major auto industry is run on diesel and petrol in the present day scenario. Now, there is a significant shift in these two popularly used fuel sources. It is a well-known fact that both the fuels are harmful to the environment.
Recently a news made rounds that diesel is more polluting as compared to petrol, due to which people are opting for petrol based options more often now. Overall, diesel cars emit fewer hydrocarbons but produce more noxious gasses and significantly more particulate matters, as is discussed by the scientists. While petrol produces more amount of carbon, diesel produces more amount of sulphur, and both are prominent atmosphere pollutants.
Moreover, we recently brought you the news that the govt. is likely to switch to BS VI norms in as soon as three years. With this change, a big leap in the diesel prices will be witnessed as compared to petrol. It is likely to make diesel even less popular among the buyers. The petrol based cars are likely to see an increment of 20 to 30 thousand rupees while the diesel variants shall price up by 75 thousand to 1 lakh rupees. You may find more detail in the following article:
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Even the small car buyers do not eye on diesel based cars that much, as they are more comfortable in the petrol based cars. Today, just one in five popular compact cars like Baleno, Hyundai Grand i10, and Tata Tiago comes with a diesel engine. In overall cars sales, the share of diesel has shrunk to 27% in the April-September period of 2016 from 47% in 2012.
Even the manufacturers who sold some particular segment vehicles like Fortuner and Toyota only on diesel base are now manufacturing the products in both the diesel and petrol options seeing the falling diesel trend in the country. Companies like Maruti have even stopped the manufacturing of diesel based vehicle Celerio. Tata has also discontinued its Indica and Indigo manufacturing.
Earlier, the price difference in petrol and diesel fuel was Rs. 20 which has fallen majorly today. It seems very obvious that people are making this transition because there seems no point to buy a relatively more expensive diesel car as compare to the petrol one when the difference in the cost of the fuels is as minimal as Rs. 10 only and it is likely to become equal after the implementation of BS VI norms.
But the major issue here is that even petrol is a significant pollutant of the environment so the switch is not likely to make much of an improvement in the global environmental conditions. Rather there is a need for a quicker development of other cleaner fuels like electricity and hydrogen fuel so that it can lead to a cleaner and greener environment.
