Bharat Stage BS6 NEW CHANGE AUTOMOBILE Latest News

The automobile business is set to change to the BS6 system in April 2020, with regards to the Supreme Court's diktat. This isn't the first occasion when that producers have needed to reconfigure their motors to meet discharge control standards. The Bharat Stage (BS) standards, which depend on European emanation measures, were at first turned out in 2000. Consequent emphasess, BS2 and BS3, became effective in 2001 and 2005 individually


In any case, it wasn’t until BS4 was implemented that emission levels were capped at levels comparable to global standards. In 2016, the government decided to skip BS5 in favour of devising a more stringent standard to check rising pollution from vehicular exhausts. After much deliberation and extensions, it was decided that the final deadline for the implementation of BS6 norms would be April 2020. How is BS6 different from BS4?

The new emission standard will require both automobile manufacturers as well as oil marketing companies to tweak their respective products. For optimal results, BS6-compliant engines will have to run on BS6 fuel, as new-generation engines running on lower quality fuel will emit a quantum of toxic gases comparable to that generated by BS4 engines. Moreover, running BS6-compliant vehicles on BS4 fuel could be detrimental to their engines. Indian oil companies have already established a supply chai for BS6-grade petrol and diesel, with distribution expanded to most filling stations in New Delhi and other metro cities.


One of the major differences between BS6 and the incumbent BS4 is that the former contains five times lesser suplhur content (10 parts per million) as compared to BS4 (50 ppm). Oxides of nitrogen (NOx), produced as a result of combustion, will be brought down by 70 per cent for diesel, and 25 per cent for petrol engines. Another significant change will be the presence of OBD (Onboard Diagnostics) and RDE (Real Driving Emission) on all vehicles, enabling real-time tracking of emissions.Diesel motors will include DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) and SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) technologies. How will manufacturers be affected?

While the transition to cleaner fuels will help bring down harmful pollutants, car and bike-makers will have to spend heavily to develop BS6-compliant engines for their existing product line. The high investment which this entails has deterred many manufacturers like Maruti Suzuki from developing diesel engines compliant with the new norms. Maruti Suzuki announced that it will phase out diesel cars and pretol bike from its lineup by April 2020. With the deadline looming large over the horizon, prospective buyers are also shying away from diesel models of popular cars and pretol bike , adding to the unsold inventory pile of manufacturers.


The auto industry, which is witnessing a slowdown, has to do away with its stock of BS4 vehicles before the Supreme Court-mandated deadline of April 2020. Many manufacturers have indulged in heavy discounting, while simultaneously investing in building BS6 fuel compatible engines. Analysts predict the prices to increase by 10 per cent, with car makers and bike makers passing on higher manufacturing costs to customers.