Renault considers killing off diesel

Senior automotive engineers at Renault expect diesel engines to disappear from most of its European cars

Renault considers killing off diesel
Senior Renault engineers have hinted at a bleak future for diesel engines.

It’s been suggested at a Renault management meeting that further major investment in diesel technology will lead to the death of the diesel.

According to a Reuters report, the soaring costs of meeting tighter emissions standards following the Volkswagen scandal would make diesel engines uneconomic to produce for the car maker.

Senior Renault executive, Thierry Bollore told Renault bosses in July that diesel engines had already been removed from the company’s smallest cars, such as the Twingo, even before the Volkswagen scandal.

By 2020, when more stringent EU emissions standards come into force, larger Renault cars such as the Clio and the Megane are unlikely to have diesel engine variants.

Renault is yet to comment on the matter and is under investigation by French authorities for publishing suspected fraudulent emissions.

Current regulations mean that Euro 6 diesel cars must emit more than 50 per cent less NOx than their Euro 5 counterparts.

Demise of the diesel?

Commenting on the future of diesel on GW last year, Tony of ADH Automotive in Birmingham said: “It’s no good setting limits beyond the technology we have right now.

“We will be looking at training for hybrid vehicles simply because we need to.

“I am certain that over the next few years these [hybrid] vehicles will start to trickle into the smaller independent workshops and we need to be ready for them.”

More than 60 per cent of the 1.6 million cars Renault sold in Europe last year were diesels.

Do you think the Volkswagen scandal will prompt the death of the diesel? Are you investing in hybrid and electric vehicle training? Share your comments below.

2 Comments

  1. When you have a company with the resorces of Volkswagen having to cheat May be we are close to the end of diesels ,has anyone thought that other company’s May have lost sale to Volkswagen because they could not get levels right when all the time it was not a fair competition

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  2. When you have a company with the resorces of Volkswagen having to cheat May be we are close to the end of diesels ,has anyone thought that other company’s May have lost sale to Volkswagen because they could not get levels right when all the time it was not a fair competition

    Reply

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