Further, a ‘toxin tax’ on diesel vehicles is being considered in different cities across the United Kingdom. Several reports have highlighted that diesel vehicles are far more polluting than petrol variants and Delhi is directly impacted by the number of diesel trucks that pass through the city at night. Further, among those vehicles that turn up for tests, only 1.68 per cent of diesel vehicles fail the smoke density test, the report stated. “The time it takes to test diesel vehicles is as much as 10-15 minutes compared to petrol vehicles, which takes 2-3 minutes,” an EPCA member told The Indian Express. Specifically, the report states that the smoke density test is very lax for the pre-Bharat Stage IV diesel vehicles.

Source: Indian Express May 03, 2017 22:52 UTC