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Days Numbered For Dirtiest Diesels in Europe; France to phase out diesel.
Paris, by Flickr user Alexandre Dulaunoy used under CC license.
In many European cities, diesel exhaust emissions have become a health problem and an environmental problem.
So in addition to promote electric cars and other forms of transportation, lawmakers are beginning to crack down against the dirtiest diesel.
Next year, the French government will launch a car identification system that will classify vehicles by the amount of pollution they emit.
According to Reuters, which will enable local authorities to limit access to the city for cars the worst pollutants.
The move - announced in a speech by the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls Friday - is part of an effort to phase out diesel fuel in the country.
In the 1960s, the French government and the automotive industry has made the decision to move to diesel - which was considered less polluting than gasoline in the days before catalytic converters became standard.
Now France is paying for this choice in the form of high levels of harmful particles and other emissions diesel exhaust after-effects of the cars that does away gift to respect the standards for diesel emissions.
France has long favored the diesel engine, Valls said in his speech, but said it was a mistake that should be canceled with policy changes that could - in the long term - diesel dominance end.
This includes measures to reduce the tax advantage of diesel gasoline by increasing the so-called excise tax TICPE.
About two thirds of cars on French roads use diesel, which has led previous governments to shy away from any increase in fuel taxes.
But only next year for new diesel cars sold in Europe to be equipped with diesel particulate filters and other post-treatment systems, to Euro 6 standards, which lead to roughly the level that was required the US since 2008.
Earlier this year, Energy Minister Segolene Royal also announced plans for a 10,000 euros on 13500 incentive for drivers who scrap their diesel vehicles and replace them with electric cars.
Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam, by Flickr user Martin Lusenet used under CC license.
Meanwhile, the Dutch city of Rotterdam also aim to eliminate the worst polluting cars in the streets, and plans to promote alternatives.
The city plans to update its own fleet to reduce 25 percent of pollution, and plans to ban older cars from its center according DutchNews.
Rotterdam may stop issuing parking permits for diesel cars built before 2005, and gasoline cars built before 1992, as well as offer homeowners cash for the dirtiest car demolition.
commercial trucks could also be banned from Gravenijkwal - a highway and now the most polluted road of Rotterdam.
Alternatively, the city also wants to install charging stations more electric cars and improve cycling facilities.
Promoting electric cars bring Rotterdam in agreement with the national government of the Netherlands, which introduced tax concessions to reach a goal of having 200,000 plug-in cars on the road by 2020.
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