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India Ponders Low-Sulfur Diesel Fuel Standard
India is studying a plan that would require refiners to reduce the sulfur content of their diesel fuel to European levels, an essential step in reducing soot emissions.
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India is studying a plan that would require refiners to reduce the sulfur content of their diesel fuel to European levels, an essential step in reducing soot emissions. Bloomberg News reports.
Lower sulfur content would enable carmakers to add particulate filters to their diesels.
The draft report from India's auto fuel policy panel says India could achieve the goal by 2021 with the help of government aid to the country's state-run refiners or 2025 without financial backing.
By then, India's car market is projected to nearly triple. Currently about 50% of new passenger vehicles sold in India are diesel powered. The option is popular because fuel taxes make diesel fuel about 23% cheaper than gasoline.
Meeting the government panel's 2021 target would put India 15 years behind the U.S. and nine years behind such developing markets as Brazil and Turkey, Bloomberg says.
The news service notes that India's effort to require cleaner diesel trucks in 13 major cities has been subverted by operators who simply register their vehicles in towns with less stringent rules.
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