Who in their right mind has sat back for so many years and allowed vehicles to pollute South Africa’s air so dreadfully? It’s bad enough that our notorious public sector has failed to bring petrol and diesel refining up to global speed, but what about the private sector treating its South African customers like the dirt that its vehicles spew out of their exhaust pipes in the form of exhaust fumes?
The local automotive industry puts catalytic converters on the back of the vehicles that it builds here for export, but it doesn’t do the same to the vehicles built here for local use – even though autocats are also made here, and could be readily procured here in local currency. For goodness sake, public sector, do your job, and for goodness sake, private sector, fit locally manufactured autocats on your locally manufactured vehicles.
Some countries are already extending zero emission incentives to off-road vehicles, let alone on-road vehicles. We’re light years behind global emission standards.