95 Per Cent Of Diesel Cars Puff Out Too Much NOx
When news of the VW emissions scandal broke, there was always that feeling that it was just the tip of the iceberg. Recently we’ve had the police raids at Renault’s factories, German car regulator Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) investigating 23 manufacturers for potential infringements, and this week Vauxhall has been dragged into proceedings amid allegations of emissions rigging during services of certain examples of the Zafira.
The latest development comes from extensive emissions testing from consumer magazine Which?. The publication looked into all its data obtained from cars it has lab tested (using more realistic measures than the EU test) since 2012 and found that a whopping 95 per cent of diesel cars tested breached EU limits for nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. It also found that one in 10 petrol cars were guilty of a NOx limit breach, with two thirds breaching carbon monoxide limits.
So why are all these cars so damned dirty? Much of it is down to the EU test. As we explained shortly after the whole VW Dieselgate thing blew up, the test is hilariously unrealistic, so it’s no surprise that out in the real world cars emit far more nasty bits out of their exhaust pipes than they’re supposed to, and it’s also no surprise that it’s usually impossible to hit the claimed economy figures.
The solution? Tougher tests, but these aren’t due to come in until September 2017. By then, who knows how this ongoing scandal might have developed…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Lol and companies like Vw are like “Diesel is clean,petrol is bad,buy diesel cars pls”. Long live petrol!!!!!!!!!
No one ever said that a Diesel is “cleaner” than a petrol engine.
Honestly, I don’t care about this. Downvote me, but that’s my opinion.
I couldn’t give 2 f*ck either. In fact, if I had the money, I’d buy a 2nd gen Cummins with bed stacks and roll coal everywhere just to piss of the treehuggers. 😂
And this is why global warming is happening… Let me put it into something car guys care about… If we keep “rolling coal” we won’t have any snow to drift in. Put things into perspective of a car guy? Tesla ftw
The largest cargo ships puff out too much NOx more than all the cars in the world
Ironically, these large container ships are some of the highest efficiency engines in the world, due to their size and how thermodynamics work.
i was going to try and comment something clever about diesel emissions but all I can think of is I know where that picture was taken
where was it?
Tesla laughing in the distance
whlie waiting in the charging station ( i love telsa, just thought it was funny)
Telsa is evil
thats why i don’t like diesel engines , sorry vin diesel
Good thing I’ve got a 04’
i don’t get it. Cars are becoming more expensive but not any better because of these regulations and we have to pay for it but no one cares to impose any regulations to massive factories in developing countries producing massively bigger amounts of polution than alla the cars combined. Car manufacturers lie because if the didn’t cars like the golf and the corsa would cost 50k Euros. I think we all pretty much agree that the new non sports cars and non-SUV cars are plenty efficient in both emissions and gas mileage. I think that both the EU and the US are chasing over minor stuff while 95% of the polution comes from factories and big ships. Maybe if all that struggle was against the right people we would have many more applications of clean energy powerplants and factories in the third world would have to obey at least some basic rules that would actually make much more of a difference than NOx emissions in cars. (sorry for the bad english, i am not a native english speaker)
LESS NOX. MORE NUX.
http://nos.nl/artikel/2081649-meer-vervuilende-dieselauto-s-bekend.html