Cars meeting Euro 6 emissions have been around since 2014, there will be plenty of 5yr old cars around when the extra charge starts.
Still going to cost the average person money. Not everyone can afford to change their car at the whim of changing government policy.
They still have another two years before the charge is enforced. A good amount of time to prepare. Their cars will require replacing at some point and that is just for diesel cars. Euro 4 petrol cars have been around considerably longer.
Advised or just took advantage of the cheap or non existent VED because it was based on C02 emissions. If people are still driving the same diesel cars since 2001 when it was introduced, it's probably about time they bought a newer car anyway.
I'm sure many were trying to do the right thing at the time. But yes, let's hope most will use the situation to change over. The advice was changed quite a while ago. So this is not much of a surprise.
A combination of diesel car reputation for longevity, VED, real life mpg, and fuel duty made diesel an attractive choice for many buyers.
If someones car buying pattern is to buy at three years old and run for at least five, then they could still be driving a 2013 Euro5 in 2021. It's not an unusual pattern of ownership - it's the buying pattern that maintains the GVC of the never-never car buyers.
PCP isn't never-never. You can buy the car at the end of the term, hand it back (unadvisable as you will get nothing back) sell it and pay off the GMFV, or trade it in for another car, the equity going towards the deposit on the next car, unlike leasing where you can never actually own the car.
That's CO2, this is about NOX particulates, of which diesel is worse than petrol. It's not scaremongering at all.
PCP is never-never, it's hire purchase without the ownership until you pay the final amount!
Even on HP you don't own the car until the last payment is made, it remains the property of the finance company until such time.
That's my point. There's no difference between HP and PCP, they're both on the never-never but HP sounds a bit "council".
They should realise it, it's all there in black and white in the paperwork and examples of finance. There are 0% finance deals around so they won't have to pay interest on any of it.
You can buy euro 4 petrol cars for less.
Never understood the whole CO2 thing, as trees and plants turn it into oxygen, but you can still get low CO2 emission petrol engines. Petrol vapour, not heard that one, engines from 80's and 90's maybe if poorly maintained and you can smell the petrol in their exhaust fumes (my philosophy is if you can't afford to maintain a car, you shouldn't own one or park it up and don't use it until you can) but euro 4 shouldn't be emitting petrol vapour, fuel injection systems were even more refined by then. Leave a large hole in the wallet, why? A diesel won't be much more, if anymore economical driving around town or in a city.
CO2 = Fuel consumption, so a lot depends on how the vehicle is driven. A small gasoline engine can be driven in an efficient way minimising their CO2 contribution. The individual driver has a huge influence on fuel economy, running costs and therefore CO2 emissions.
Because "Fossil fuel burning has produced about three-quarters of the increase in CO2 from human activity over the past 20 years. "
48.3% gas for cars31.6% heating oil and diesel fuels9.8% jet fuel (kerosene)"
Not fast enough. There's a finite conversion capacity and we're burning carbon reserves orders of magnitude faster than the environment can capture it.
Euro 4 petrol cars are ok which is from January 2005 and later. For diesel you are looking at Euro 6 and want anything from September 2014 and later.
No, it's any 2005 petrol onwards 05 plate. Diesel is September 2014 onwards, so anything with a 64 plate and later.
Only if they enter any of the yet to be confirmed and still all very conjectural ultra low emission zones.
If you intend driving in London or other cities, yes. When the initial emissions zone was started around London, vehicles could have after market emissions filters fitted to the exhaust system. I'm not sure if something similar could be done again.
Fitting de-NOx aftertreatment and re-mapping EGR might be technically possible for some pre Euro 6 diesels, but unlikely to be viable/cost-effective in my view.
Get a Focus ST, I managed 38mpg on Sunday including sitting in a queue waiting to get out of Silverstone for 10-15 minutes, and nailing it to get up to speed every time the opportunity arose.
