Just heard on radio that diesel cars may be charged for entering two major cities, didn't say which cities but as it was a local radio think it might be Nottingham and derby, as these fell way behind in the polution test, is this the start of the demise of the diesel engine and our tow car's?
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It will only be for older diesels, same as LEZ now for vans reg before 2002 so a non story really, most German cities ban last century diesels. Modern trucks & buses are clean emissions as are modern diesel cars so they will be unaffected.
The Derby Telegraph ran a story on this yesterday, Link
Quote, "The proposed scheme could be rolled out in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Derby, Nottingham, Bristol and Southampton as early as 2020. The six cities have been identified as likely to fail the EU air quality standards by that year without improvements."
I would like to know how all these friends of the earth get about there not all walking or cycling a lot of them are bloody hypocrites modern diesels are supposed to be more enviromently friendly just another way of taxing the motorist, where does the money go too it would serve these places right if people abstained from using city/towns etc they already tax us enough on car tax, fuel, insurance.
Most German cities have the same system so no big deal really. To sensationalise it the media neglect to mention that it will only apply to last century diesel cars.
If it only includes last century cars, what about those that span the centenary? My Volvo is an early 2000 model, which is exactly the same car as a 1997 model. There was a model change in March 2000.
Personally, I try to avoid driving my car into city centres anyway.
Birmingham council are considering a £12.50 charge. It will be for Deisel cars, there was nothing to say it was for older cars. If they do bring it in it will not start until 2020.
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I love the way these sort of threads always start with the sort of handwringing 'oh the end of tow cars, end of caravanning, etc blah'. If diesels are eventually outlawed they will build equally torquey turbo petrols... Fuel prices have come down & the new UK road tax regime levels the playing field somewhat for larger cars, so all good, it seems.