VW has parked around 8,000 cars at Berlin's unfinished BER airport, waiting to get approvals from the German Transport Authority for its yet untested models. Worldwide up to 250,000 VW cars await delivery to customers
Posted on 12/01/2018 7:59:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv
As the EU rolls out a new car emissions test, official fuel consumption and emissions figures will be far closer to reality. But consumers are paying a price, both in terms of added costs and fewer models available. When European drivers get into their cars as of Saturday (September 1), they may be surprised to learn that overnight their cherished vehicles have become about 20 percent less fuel-efficient and 20 percent more polluting than when they last turned the key... those buying a car next week or later may find more difficult to contend with is a car tax bill that could be up to 70 percent higher than for an identical car bought, say, last week or earlier... the car you own after September 1 is obviously still the same as it was in August. But its official -- on paper -- efficiency and environmental ratings are certified through a new, tougher standard, called the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP)... The WLTP takes all of those factors into consideration, and more. Although also being carried out in a laboratory, the new test cycles are based on real-world driving data and split into four parts -- low, medium, high and extra-high average speeds. Each speed range will comprise a variety of phases, including stops, acceleration and braking. While NEDC relied on fixed gear shift points, WLTP specifies different shift points for each vehicle. Moreover, a complementary Real Driving Emissions (RDE) test has been introduced, which, as the name suggests, is not laboratory-based. Although the procedure sets the types of roads and topography, it can be performed on any roads anywhere in the world. It is this aspect that poses the toughest challenge for manufacturers.
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VW has parked around 8,000 cars at Berlin's unfinished BER airport, waiting to get approvals from the German Transport Authority for its yet untested models. Worldwide up to 250,000 VW cars await delivery to customers
Until September 1, cars to be type-approved for European markets had to pass a test called the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) designed in the 1980s and introduced in 1996.
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Don’t ya love it when a gay Paris climate accord comes to.............. Oh.
Wow, that’s about $7 billion in unsold inventory at an average cost of $30,000.
Coming our way as soon as lunatic liberals regain control.
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It's quite a blow. Actually, most of the article is a rehash of the "dieselgate" emissions fixing scandal, and the writer notes that "According to several polls, between 55 to 67 percent of Germans continue to trust the automaker. In the US, polls show that roughly 50 percent still believe the German company produces worthwhile vehicles."
The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) has estimated that fuel consumption and CO2 figures will increase by 22 percent on average — meaning first and foremost a welcome windfall for treasuries all over Europe.Sure enough, follow the money. Screw the citizen.
It's possible that our next immigration crisis will be all the raised-on-socialism Euroweenies fleeing the nightmare they've created.
2nd Amemdment -- Use it or lose it.
Well yeah. Analogously, you don't think that taxes on tobacco are about politicians' concern about public health, do ya?
...and they will bring it here. Every European and Brit I’ve worked with here all miss the smothering state of the old country. Many are full communist.
My two 15 yr old Turbo-Diesel carz still RULE!
FMCDH...
Increase See Uh Oh 2! BOOM! Winning!
At first, reducing car pollution is fairly straightforward, and there is a lot of reduction for the cost. But the cost of reducing emissions grows as the efficiency of current pollution control measures increases. There eventually comes a point when the cost of further reductions in pollutants becomes prohibitive. I suspect that with car emissions, we have reached that point, so that it costs more and more money to achieve ever smaller decreases in pollutants.
One would think that the magnitude of the cost would outweigh any fractional gain at this point—but then, these are politicians making the decisions.
Nice, flat torque curve?
Letting a bunch of people who don't know how to do anything themselves make all the decisions and boss everyone around, without any accountability -- that's the important thing. ;^)
[snip] Although an improvement over the NEDC, the WLTC cycles are still unrealistically slow. For example, the most rapid 0–50 kilometres per hour (0–30 mph) time is 15 seconds. Most drivers in Western Europe accelerate from rest to 50 kilometres per hour (30 mph) in 5 to 10 seconds.[citation needed] There is also no hill climbing in the cycle, and modest gradients increase engine loads by 2 to 3 times, with a subsequent increase in pollutants.[citation needed] [/snip]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_harmonized_light_vehicles_test_procedure
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