The city has seen a large decline of 66% in registration of diesel vehicles in two years since 2019.
In comparison, gasoline vehicle registration fell 36% during the same period.
Apart from the economic impact of the lack of pandemic chips and semiconductors that slow down production, tightening emissions norms have encouraged several car companies to stop manufacturing models using small capacity diesel engines.
What’s more, Diesel as fuel has lost the advantage in pricing.
The Department of Transportation statistics showed significant growth of 20% in diesel vehicles in Mumbai from 26,311 vehicles in 2015-16 to 31,758 in 2016-17.
In 2017-18, registration fell slightly by 3% but rose again in 2018-19 by 12%.
After this peak period, there was a registration in registration – a total decline of 66% in a diesel / SUV and other vehicles from 34,406 in 2018-19 to 11,785 at 2020-21.
Gasoline car registration has peaked at 2.22 lakh in 2018-19 before breaking up with 1.89 lakh in 2019-20 and 1.43 lakh at 2020-21.
The decline in registration for the past two years has been 36%.
JINESH Gandhi, Research Analyst at Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd., said several leading car companies attracted the production of cars with a diesel engine of less than a 1.5-liter capacity in April 2020.
This was after the BS-6 Norma was introduced from April 1, 2020, and that “No.
“For some people to produce high-cost cars.
The source said several companies stopped the diesel engines in a hatchback and sedans (1.5 liter 1.5 liter engine capacity) from April1, 2020.
Analysts said sales were also influenced because the gap between the price of diesel and gasoline was narrowed.
The cost of diesel now is Rs 94.14 per liter in Mumbai.
CNG at RS 57.54 per kg and electric cars have lower operational costs, maintenance and fuel in addition to environmentally friendly.
Sachin Gawde, General Manager (Sales) at Velox Motors, said “The lack of semiconductors also caused delays in the availability of car models, producing slow sales this year for all categories of vehicles including diesel.” The hard box of Bus & Car operators of the Indian Confederation said many taxi aggregator owners have switched from Diesel and vehicles installed with CNG kits.
“Many school buses that initially plying on diesel were also converted to CNG,” he said.
Diesel is also prohibited from public transportation after a court order.
Al Quadros said from the UNI Mumbai Taximen: “58,000 Kaali Peeli taxis were converted from most diesel to CNG between 2001 and January 2003.” More than Lakh Autos also turned to clean fuel and so was 1,800 of the best buses.