They are the best-selling cars in Spain for more than a decade and from Europe they have been condemned to extinction. In several capitals you can no longer enter with a vehicle of this type and in the future these prohibitions will increase.
Buying a car is now more difficult than ever. For many reasons. On the one hand we have the enormous variety of engines (diesel, gasoline, microhybrid, true hybrids, electric, natural gas …), and on the other the European regulations.
As much as we like diesel, a type of combustion that has been proven more efficient and less polluting than gasoline by current standards (Euro 6), from Europe they have thrown the crosses and the idea is to put an end to it.
For this reason, when we go to buy a car the price differences between gasoline and diesel engines are so great, becoming € 2,000 to € 3,000 more expensive on average.
In this situation, One wonders if it is worth going to a diesel car, as much as its advantages on the roads are obvious.. Since it seems that the institutions are determined to end this fuel and that we as citizens cannot do anything.
To answer this question, we must see how it has been legislated in recent years, because otherwise we will not know what the real limitations of diesel are for the future.
At the European level, the only thing that has been approved is the ban on the sale of combustion engine cars by 2035, and this prohibition includes both diesel and gasoline. So in this regard there is no tougher legislation for diesel.
As for the capitals, places where there are usually low emission zones (ZBE), in our country what we see is that they are governed by the DGT environmental labels, And while old diesels are prohibited from entering these central areas, modern ones do have permission, just like a new gasoline.
It has also been approved a regulation that will force the establishment of an LEZ before 2023 in those municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, or with more than 20,000 in those locations if there are already areas with existing pollution problems.
For this reason, Today the only negative of buying a diesel is that it is more expensive (although they always have been), because in everything else the car will be able to circulate on the same roads as its gasoline counterparts.