{"id":363718,"date":"2020-07-20T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T05:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363718"},"modified":"2020-07-20T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:28:06","slug":"maruti-sees-no-merit-in-developing-small-bs-vi-diesel-engine-to-expand-cng-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maruti-sees-no-merit-in-developing-small-bs-vi-diesel-engine-to-expand-cng-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Maruti sees no merit in developing small BS-VI diesel engine, to expand CNG port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) sees no logic in developing a BS-VI diesel engine for small cars as it does not find any economic viability for such cars with market gradually shifting towards petrol models, a senior company official said.<\/p>\n<p>The auto major, with no diesel vehicles in its line-up, now aims to expand its CNG products range to bring in additional volumes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is absolutely no logic in developing a small diesel engine. It is less than 5 per cent in hatchback segment and has reduced considerably in sedans and entry-level SUV segment as now economics does not support it,&#8221; MSI Executive Director Sales and Marketing Shashank Srivastava told PTI in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) sees no logic in developing a BS-VI diesel engine for small cars as it does not find any economic viability for such cars with market gradually shifting towards petrol models, a senior company official said. The auto major, with no diesel vehicles in its line-up, now aims to expand its CNG products range to bring in additional volumes. &#8220;There is absolutely no logic in developing a small diesel engine. It is less than 5 per cent in hatchback segment and has reduced considerably in sedans and entry-level SUV segment as now economics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}