Drive Clean is headed for the scrap yard.

Premier Doug Ford, Environment Minister Rod Phillips and Transportation Minister John Yakabuski announced Friday morning that the provincial government will end the mandatory emissions test for passenger vehicles next April 2019.

“I’m proud to announce the end of the outdated Drive Clean program,” Ford said.

The PCs say Drive Clean will be replaced with a new system focusing on heavy-duty vehicles such as transport trucks.

Drive Clean was brought in by the previous Conservative government in 1999 to curb polluting vehicles, a major source of smog.

But as cars got cleaner and cleaner, the then-$35 test became an irritant for drivers, especially after it was revealed by the auditor general of Ontario that the vast majority of vehicles pass and the worst-polluting vehicles were exempt from testing.

The previous Liberal government lowered the fee to $30 and then eliminated it entirely, but the program costs taxpayers $40 million a year to subsidize.