Maruti Suzuki focus on making petrol cars more fuel efficient and stays away from diesel segment

Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) has dominated out obtaining back the diesel phase because it believes the sale of such vehicles would additional return down with the onset of subsequent part of emission norms in 2023, consistent with a senior company official.

The country’s largest manufacturer believes that the subsequent part of emission norms would raise the price of diesel vehicles, So additionally impacting their sales within the market, which in the previous couple of years has seen a gradual shift towards gasolene cars.

“We aren’t attending to be within the diesel area. we tend to had indicated earlier that we’ll study it and if there’s client demand we will create a comeback. however going forward, we’ll not be collaborating within the diesel area,” MSI Chief Technical Officer C V Raman told PTI in associate interaction.

He cited the approaching stricter emission norms as a primary reason to avoid diesel-powered cars.

As per business estimates, the share of diesel vehicles is presently less than seventeen per cent of the passenger vehicle (PV) sales. It’s an enormous reduction from 2013-14 when diesel cars used to account for sixty per cent of the general sales.

Already several of the automakers within the country have scraped diesel trims of their portfolios with the onset of the BS-VI emission regime from the month of April 2020.

MSI had discontinued diesel models from its portfolio with the onset of the stricter BS-VI emission norms.

The company’s entire model variant is presently powered by BS-VI compliant one l, 1.2 l and 1.5 l gas engines. It additionally offers CNG trims across seven of its models.

Raman aforesaid the corporate would improvise its existing gasolene powertrains in terms of fuel potency and going ahead, can also check out a brand new family of engines to power its product portfolio.

“We have aforesaid that we’ll improve our existing powertrains that is already happening. The new K10-C engine in Celerio is one such improvement. Similarly, the 1.2 l engine has undergone some amendment. Therefore from a fuel potency perspective, we’ll improve our internal combustion engine technology,” he said.

As per the corporate, its recently introduced all-new version of Celerio returns a fuel potency of 26.68 km/litre, that it claims is the highest for any petrol-powered automobile in India.

Raman aforesaid the corporate would additionally enhance electrification aspects in its cars like start-stop technology.

“We have already got the gentle hybrid technology at the upper finish. Besides, we tend to have an additional CNG attributable to the low running value. Seven out of fifteen models have already got the CNG trims. In future, additional brands can go together with the technology,” he added.

There would be hybrid technologies and electrical vehicles (EVs) going ahead, therefore there’s attending to be plenty of amendment from powertrain perspective, Raman noted.