Remember when we were all encouraged to buy diesel powered cars because they produced less CO2 than petrol.
Now the FIAT group are discontinuing diesel engines. From the next style updates FIAT and Alfa Romeo will only be producing mild hybrid (petrol) and battery electric vehicles.
At the same time the region of Piemonte is banning, from October, all diesel cars that are less than Euro 5 from cities of over 30,000 inhabitants. This, if not postponed, will make 250,000 vehicles of people who live in Piemonte unable to enter towns such as Torino, Asti, Novara and Alessandria.
I understand the concern about polution but since the introduction of exhaust fine carbon particle filters that problem has largely been solved except for the fact that all vehicles, even BEV, produce fine carbon particles from brakes and tyres. The other issue with diesel engines is NOx; at least with Euro 6 vehicles that use AdBlue also that problem has been largely solved and it remains that diesel produces less CO2 and consumes less fuel than equivalent petrol powered vehicles.
I can't help feeling that the enactment of regulations like this are more political than based on actual reality of the issue of polution and global warming.

Peter

[Linked Image]