The diesel car debate: Three decades and counting

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The diesel car debate: Three decades and counting
National Green Tribunal’s order will remove diesel cars older than 10 years from Delhi’s roads, but it will take a while to clear the air on India’s diesel debate


India, which currently follows BS-IV emission norms in its top cities, will skip BS-V norms and move directly to BS-VI by 2020. Photo: HT
New Delhi: Once upon a time, there was a motorcycle called the Yamaha RX100, which reached 60 kmph from zero in around six seconds flat, and became the heartthrob of a generation used to cranky Yezdis and hulking Bullets.

It was the mid-eighties, and the RX100’s quick success was followed by similar 100cc bikes sporting Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda badges, but the Yamaha stood a class apart. As its tagline said: “Ahead of the 100s”.

Its rivals managed to survive much longer in various avatars, but the Yamaha RX100 was the first to go. The icon of a generation could not meet the new emission standards, and before the turn of the century, the RX100 was history.

The RX100 ended as a footnote in India’s struggle for cleaner air, which started playing out a few years earlier, and is still playing out in various courts and automobile research and development (R&D) units.

Where does one begin?