Diesel collapse drags down car sales | Business – The Times

The collapse in both demand and supply of diesel vehicles triggered brand-new cars and truck sales to slump last month by 22 percent year-on-year. The diminishing number of diesels entering into the market and the historically low varieties of present registrations highlight the sped up take-up of amazed vehicles, to the point where plug-ins have now overtaken diesel sales.In August, 68,000 brand-new automobiles were registered compared with 87,000 in the same month in 2015, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Of those brand-new registrations, only 12.4 percent were diesel. Not so long back, prior to the “dieselgate” scandal and the argument about how polluting diesel cars really are, diesel sales represented almost half of UK deliveries.Just over 18 per cent of