Emissions from most diesel cars in Europe greatly exceed laboratory testing levels

[rangerrebew]

Emissions from most diesel cars in Europe greatly exceed laboratory testing levels
September 21, 2018 by Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

In September 2015, the German automaker Volkswagen was found to have illegally cheated federal emissions tests in the United States, by intentionally programming emissions control devices to turn on only during laboratory testing. The devices enabled more than 11 million passenger vehicles to meet U.S. emissions standards in the laboratory despite producing emissions up to 40 times higher than the legal limit in real-world driving conditions.

Now a new MIT study reports that Volkswagen is not the only auto manufacturer to make diesel cars that produce vastly more emissions on the road than in laboratory tests. The study, published this month in Atmospheric Environment, finds that in Europe, 10 major auto manufacturers produced diesel cars, sold between 2000 and 2015, that generate up to 16 times more emissions on the road than in regulatory tests—a level that exceeds European limits but does not violate any EU laws.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-emissions-diesel-cars-europe-greatly.html#jCp

[truth_seeker]

We had a VW diesel, which was a major polluter, and bought back by VW as part of the "settlement."

It turned out, that while VW/Audi/Porsche was caught in the US, other firms also used the same testing software trick, in Europe.

This article reflects this fact.

To bad. Those 2 liter VW/Audi turbodiesel engines, got 40 mpg plus, and had huge torque.


VW handled the "buy back" horribly. I had wanted to keep and repair the car, but could not get reliable answers or information from them.