No more Renault dervs?
Discussion
Not quite, with the usual bad/lazy quotes.
The cost of the exhaust after treatment to clean up to the pollution is getting very high (somewhere around €1500 per vehicle with the new real world emission testing). Compared to 2-300 for petrol. So it is not viable to put diesels in the smaller/cheaper cars.
Renault have been discussing it openly at the trade conferences over the last year and have said that the point that diesel makes some sense is the megane and bigger cars. Depending on how the electrification goes it might change but even the diesel will all be 48v mild hybrids by the next generation. If the trend to SUVs keeps going then the number of diesels will stay higher.
They are still predicting that the European car fleet will drop from 50% diesel to 35% over the next 10 years.
The cost of the exhaust after treatment to clean up to the pollution is getting very high (somewhere around €1500 per vehicle with the new real world emission testing). Compared to 2-300 for petrol. So it is not viable to put diesels in the smaller/cheaper cars.
Renault have been discussing it openly at the trade conferences over the last year and have said that the point that diesel makes some sense is the megane and bigger cars. Depending on how the electrification goes it might change but even the diesel will all be 48v mild hybrids by the next generation. If the trend to SUVs keeps going then the number of diesels will stay higher.
They are still predicting that the European car fleet will drop from 50% diesel to 35% over the next 10 years.
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