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Fleets switching out of diesel
Date: 07 July 2015 | Author: Tristan Young
Businesses are starting to move away from diesels, according to fleet management company CLM.
CLM believes that higher initial prices for Euro6 diesels and higher on-going maintenance costs have seen a trend of fleets moving to petrol and hybrid vehicles.
CLM's figures showed that at the end of quarter four in 2014, diesel models accounted for 90.4% of all new models ordered by it's customers. However, by the end of quarter one of this year that rate had fallen by 4.8% to 85.6% of all new orders.
CLM general manager Simon Cotton claims that fleets will face problems with Euro6 diesels, however all new cars will have to be Euro6 from September 2015.
"The latest generation lean-burn petrol models face no such problems and their upkeep and maintenance, compared to future diesel models, could be viewed as less complicated and more straightforward, with lower front end costs, improved economy and better carbon emissions," he said.
