For Andy Palmer (Opinion, February 16) to blame the UK government and politicians for the growth in diesel vehicles is a rewriting of history.
The truth is that in the late 1990s the car industry, led particularly by German and French manufacturers, pushed hard for a favourable regime for diesels. The resulting EU emission standards set easier exhaust pipe requirements for diesel than petrol. This was the origin of the bias in their favour, not subsequent fiscal incentives. The European industry promoted diesels as an alternative to the arrival of hybrids on the market, pioneered by Toyota. It then overpromised on the ability of emission control technology to make diesels clean. This was followed by blatant cheating with the so-called defeat devices.
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