Diesel car alert as owners given 2028 warning

Diesel cars are falling out of favour across the UK, and experts say they could be nearly wiped out within just a few years. New data shows the fuel type, which was once a top choice for drivers, now accounts for just one in every 17 new car sales. And if current trends continue, diesel could make up just 2% of the market by 2028.

That would mean only one in 50 new cars sold in the UK will be powered by diesel - a massive fall from a decade ago, when it was one in two. The decline is being driven by a mix of rising costs, stricter emissions rules and the long-lasting effects of the Dieselgate scandal, when Volkswagen was found to have cheated emissions tests between 2008 and 2015.