Diesel collapse gives automakers carbon headache
By Reuters
07 March 2018 |
7:30 am
The accelerating demise of diesel, long used by carmakers to boost fuel efficiency, is undermining their plans to meet looming European Union CO2 goals, and avoid big annual fines.
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