Maruti Suzuki Will Discontinue BS-IV Production From January 2020

As for the paradigm shift of the BS-VI emission standards, the Supreme Court has regulated that no BS-IV vehicle are manufactured or sold in the Indian market after April 1, 2020. Maruti Suzuki is the pioneering automotive company to follow the new regulation by its plan to flush out all existing BS-IV cars in India.

As the country has been confronting to the alarming level of air pollution, a revived emission standard is necessary. The generation shift of vehicular emission norms from stage 4 to stage 6 has been set April 1, 2020, as the deadline. Within two years, both OEMs and suppliers have to make their effort to meet the given time limit.

Maruti Suzuki will be the first company to follow the BS-VI emission standards

Rs Bhargava who is currently the chairman of Maruti Suzuki India spoke to the media gathering in New Delhi that:

“The production of our BS-IV vehicles will largely culminate by end of December 2019. These will be models which will by-and-large get converted to BS-VI by December 2019. As a result, we will only manufacture BS-VI cars from January 2020 but will produce BS-IV models only if there is a strong demand for any particular model, but that number will be very less.”

He revealed that they are also working out on one model that they will not be able to convert to comply the BS-VI norms by December 2019, but they are speeding up to tackle the situation.

Only BS-VI compliant cars will be sold by the company from 2020

The company also confirmed that their BS-VI petrol vehicles can run on BS-IV fuel as well but the case is not happening on diesel models. As a matter of fact, the BS-VI diesel engine roughly commands an amount of Rs 2,50,000 over its counterpart- the petrol version and rely on the customer to decide the powertrain option he or she wants. The Japanese-owned carmaker also announces to kick off equipping the powerful hybrid systems in their BS-VI petrol cars with the leverage of the Toyota-Suzuki agreement for the wake of enhancing the fuel efficiency of a car to 30% as well as fulfil the CAFE targets.

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