Category - Dirty old tech

Petrol, Diesel, Air Quality, Emissions, Clean Air Zones, Ultra Low Emission zones

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MyUrbanCar tipping point chart – diesel sales v electrified cars

We are not expecting rising alternatively fuelled vehicle (AFV) or pure Electric Vehicle EV sales to overtake falling diesel cars until 2021 to 2022 but here is an update on the trends here. Sales trends up to end of...

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Clean Air Zone - charging or ban EV - Electric Vehicles PHEV -Plugin Hybrid RDE2 UK UK Transport policy Vans

Solving a problem with the ULEZ to cut air pollution from vans further and faster

Issue The timing of the ULEZ rollout, especially the inner zone in April 2019 will push businesses to replace old diesel vans with dirty but exempt Euro 6 diesels rather than the wider choice of affordable zero emission...

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Diesel RDE2 UK Transport policy

Euro 6 vehicle testing gets more realistic with WLTP RDE and RDE2. What are they?

The discredited Euro 6 emissions regime is changing with the arrival of WLTP & RDE1 tests. Meanwhile UK Government has decided (vehicle excise duty) rates on new diesel cars from April 2018 would be based on the RDE...

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Diesel UK Transport policy

Cutting traffic pollution – for local government

Local Government has a responsibility for ensuring air quality does not breach official limits but compared to city and national governments has a limited toolbox of effective measures at its disposal. Most of these...

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Cars Diesel Petrol

Cutting NOx by 95% – switching to a Skoda Karoq 1.5 TSI petrol auto from a Range Rover Evoque 2.2 diesel auto

Update 8th May You really can have it all! With nearly a thousand miles on the clock the Karoq petrol is delivering almost identical fuel economy to the Evoque diesel which produced a 35mpg figure over similar driving...

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Cars Diesel UK

February car sales fall for 11th Month in a row

UK car sales have now fallen every month since George Osbourne’s VED changes -compared to the same month the previous year. Next month will likely show an even bigger % drop because March 2017 was boosted by...

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Cars Petrol

Can you switch from your polluting diesel and cut CO2? Going from tech level zero to level 4.

How easy is it to clean up our emissions? Going from tech level zero to level 4. When I set out to cut my contribution to poisoning our urban air I knew in one sense that I’d made life easy for myself. I’d started with...

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Diesel

UK diesel sales down to 37.7% market share in November

SMMT – car registrations data sales fell by 11.2% in November, the 8th consecutive month that sales have declined. Meanwhile diesel sales comtinued to fall to 37.7% of the market from 48.3% in Nov 2016...

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Diesel

Will Philip Hammond’s 2017 budget matter for Diesel?

The UK Government unleashes RDE2 (not a droid from Star Wars) Motoring lobbyists, the car industry, the Sun Newspaper and some Conservative MPs will have patted themselves on the back after the Chancellor Philip Hammond...

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Diesel UK

UK Diesel Market Share – SMMT stats

We will be doing monthly updates of this chart of SMMT data showing what is happening to diesel sales. October 2017 update After dipping – just – under 40% in the smaller sales month of August it rose...

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Category - Dirty old tech

MyUrbanCar tipping point chart – diesel sales v electrified cars

Solving a problem with the ULEZ to cut air pollution from vans further and faster

Euro 6 vehicle testing gets more realistic with WLTP RDE and RDE2. What are they?

Cutting traffic pollution – for local government

Cutting NOx by 95% – switching to a Skoda Karoq 1.5 TSI petrol auto from a Range Rover Evoque 2.2 diesel auto

February car sales fall for 11th Month in a row

Can you switch from your polluting diesel and cut CO2? Going from tech level zero to level 4.

UK diesel sales down to 37.7% market share in November

Will Philip Hammond’s 2017 budget matter for Diesel?

UK Diesel Market Share – SMMT stats

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