An English company has just published the results of a study revealing the nitrogen oxide emissions of 600 current vehicles. The results of Diesel vehicles are not the best ...
Many mayors around the world want their city's air quality to be beyond reproach. Therefore, they try at all costs to educate their fellow citizens. Today, to get there, they can count on the results of the latest study to date by the independent company Emissions Analytics. It has just published a ranking of nearly 600 vehicles tested in real conditions: http://fr.equaindex.com/indice-equa-qualite-de-lair/
From A to H
Concretely, the tests carried out by Emissions Analytics mainly concerned the release of NOx (nitrogen oxide) and not CO2, the vehicle's approval criteria to date. The result ? Some manufacturers are doing much better than others. Of the 333 Diesel models tested, only fifteen obtained the maximum score. All are German brands! And, good surprise, the Volkswagen group classifies eleven of its models there. The note, in question, is in the form of a letter taken up on a scale going from A to H. The French manufacturers, for their part, are less well rated. Indeed, the best note is to put on the account of PSA who manages to get a D for his Peugeot 308 2.0 (2015), Citroën C4 Cactus 1.6 (2014) and DS5 1.6 (2014). Renault, for its part, only reaches an F rating for its Captur 1.5 (2013). Concretely, this means that its model exceeds 6 to 8 times the limit of the Euro 6 standard in force. Gulp ...
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Source: https://www.moniteurautomobile.be/actu- ... ytics.html