Pressure is mounting on the Government to ensure ‘real world’ car emissions tests are introduced on schedule after the latest scandal to hit the car industry.
Road safety charity Brake, who described the findings of a recent Department for Transport (DfT) investigation as ‘shocking’, has urged the authorities to act urgently and ensure the new standards are implemented next year as scheduled.
“We’re backing the introduction of these tests”, said Brake campaigns director Gary Rae.
“I want the government to ensure that testing is rigorously enforced and tough action taken when vehicles do not make the grade. Many drivers believe they have been cheated into buying diesel vehicles.”
The investigation was launched in the wake of the VW emissions scandal when it was revealed many of the German carmaker’s diesel emissions tests were rigged. This week Mitsubishi Motors admitted that they had incorrectly measured fuel efficiency data across a range of its models.
The DfT tested 37 cars, and found that none met the EU lab NOx limit in ‘real world’ testing with levels of pollution on average five times higher than those recorded in laboratory conditions, and in some cases as much as twelve times higher.
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