Nissan has revealed that it plans to pull the plug on development of diesel engines, choosing instead to devote management resources to electric vehicles. According to the Nikkei, the decision comes after Nissan said “further decline in the diesel engine market is inevitable.”
Moreover, authorities in Britain, France, Hamburg, China and other countries are either restricting sales of diesel-powered cars or banning it altogether, with hopes of meeting tightening environmental regulations.
Production of Nissan’s own diesel engines is expected to end by 2020, depending on demand.
For major markets, Nissan has stopped sales of passenger cars with diesel engines, including Japan and the United States. In the early 2020s, European sales will stop as existing models currently offered with diesels will be switched over to new models with either petrol or petrol-electric options.
After that, it will continue selling diesel-powered commercial vehicles such as vans, but the engines will be outsourced. Nissan’s French partner Renault – well known for its oil burners – also plans to end its development of new diesel engines.
Is the time of diesel technology coming to an end? Maybe, maybe not, but with Nissan being the latest in line to drop the oil burning tech, it sure is showing signs of waning. Meanwhile, other car companies such as Volvo will completely discontinue making diesel cars soon too. So, what do you think of this development?
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Everybody is giving up diesel because it is dirty. And that also they base it on Euro 5 diesel.
In Malaysia we are still selling Euro 2 diesel which Europe confirmed to be same as poison in 1994, 24 years ago. Pity our old Government had tidak apa attitude
Nissan alliance partner Mitsubishi has got excellent diesel engines.
Nissan can stop that because their commercial car business is small. Diesel technology still friendlier to our atmosphere and kinder to our ozone. High mileage low consumption.
Only bad is to pedestrians health.
Japanese car makers not really good at making diesel engine anyways..let the german and korean venture into this market ..jap can sell low powered fuel efficient 1.4 or 1.5liter petrol engine for honda n toyota
But them germans alredi have high powered fuel efficient 1.4 or 1.5 liter petrol engines. Why wud they want jepunis dinosars?
But in europe diesel engine is still the norm…very few petrol engine vehicles on the road
If clean diesel were made more available worldwide, habislah 1.4 & 1.5 jepunis petrol engines.
If everybody use germans high powered fuel efficient petrol engines, probably workshop not enough to cater all.
And your Lazada shipping/delivery charges will be sky high.
Mazda & Isuzu low-profile?
Japanese environmental regulations are very strict and diesels just cannot meet the standards set hence no or very few diesels can be sold in japan. To match european diesel economy, japs came up with hybrid. Of course, now its been revealed even european manufacturers cannot meet their environmental standards so they cheated. Next set of testing, vw already announce they cannot meet. So vw also abandoning diesels although they are more economical. I expect the rest of european manufacturers to follow.
Meanwhile in Malaysia, Nissan and TCM is nowhere to be seen to introduce the facelifted x-trail.. Singapore, Philippine already have quite sometime..
Where is Qashqai, Note, Pulsar which is hot selling nissan? instead they are going to introduce kick!!
buck up TCM!
ETCM peram new Serena for 9 months then just recently gip birth, so they need to peram another 9 months for one more car. Gip them time.
I can see why Nissan pulls the plug on Diesel engines becoz many cities in Europe is banning diesel(Nox) in the near future.
Co2 levels will climb uncontrollably