Merkel's EU have delayed REAL WORLD N0x emission tests by a few years to save BMW & VW bacon so they can get their diesel Euro 6 emissions in order none of the cars make Euro 6 emission number in REAL WORLD tests they are on average 6 times over the safe EU diesel limits.
Meantime Merkel's Merkel's is very happy to kill 100,000's of Europeans with Euro 6 diesel car pollution over the next few year, as long as it saves BMW & VW bacon give them breathing space to get their diesel houses in order before TOUGH real world testing comes.
You don't think your Micky Mouse EU government that told you all to buy VW diesels will let you keep the savings made from oil refineries supply and demand mean diesel will become cheaper, Mr Hammond has already got this money saving red ringed in higher future fuel taxes on diesel fuel Rupert.
An Alarming Number of People Have Died from Dirty Diesel Engines
More than 500,000 Europeans a year may be dying from conditions related to air pollution, the European Union's environmental watchdog said in a new report Monday. The report is likely to further stoke the emissions controversy plaguing the continent's automakers.
The findings, by the European Environment Agency, add further evidence to the real-world impact of excess emissions. It comes at a time when Volkswagen AG, largest automaker in Europe and the second largest in the world, is struggling to contain the fall-out from revelations that it lied about the emissions performance of over 11 million of its vehicles, some 8 million of which are on European roads.
There is no one figure in the EEA's report that says how many deaths have been caused specifically by diesel emissions, still less by VW's excess emissions specifically. However, it estimates that 432,000 people in 40 European countries died prematurely in 2012, due to concentrations of particulate matter in the atmosphere, while another 75,000 died from long-term exposure to nitrogen oxide and another 17,000 due to exposure to ground-level ozone. Over 90% of those deaths happened in the 28 countries of the E.U..
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Diesel cars' emissions far higher on road than in lab, tests show
Diesel cars are producing many times more health-damaging pollutants than claimed by laboratory tests, with some emitting up to 12 times the EU maximum when tested on the road, according to a government investigation undertaken following the Volkswagen scandal.
A Department for Transport (DfT) study of cars made by manufacturers such as Ford, Renault and Vauxhall found there was a vast difference in nitrogen oxide emissions measured in the laboratory and under normal driving conditions.
Not a single car among 37 models tested against the two most recent nitrogen oxide emissions standards met the EU lab limit in real-world testing, with the average emissions being more than five times as high.
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However, the DfT said it had found no vehicles outside the VW group with systems in place to deliberately rig emissions figures. Robert Goodwill, the junior transport minister, said: “Unlike the Volkswagen situation, there have been no laws broken. This has been done within the rules.”
The minister denied that the findings meant the current emissions testing regime was a farce. “But certainly I am disappointed that the cars that we are driving on our roads are not as clean as we thought they might be. It’s up to manufacturers now to rise to the real-world tests and the tough standards we’re introducing,” he said.
The DfT exercise was ordered after it emerged that Volkswagen had allegedly used technology to cheat emissions tests. It measured NOx, or nitrogen oxide emissions. Nitrogen oxide helps to form ozone smog that can badly affect people with chest conditions such as asthma.
The tests were carried out by a team led by Ricardo Martinez-Botas, professor of mechanical engineering at Imperial College London. Among the vehicles tested were 19 models that meet the latest Euro 6 limit of 80mg/km NOx emissions in laboratory tests. Euro 6 was introduced for all new cars sold after September last year.
When driven in a real-world simulation of urban, rural and motorway travel, the average was nearer to 500mg/km, with some cars getting close to 1,100mg/km.
Among the new models tested that are meant to comply with the Euro 6 standard were the Ford Focus, which had a real-world emission about eight times above the EU limit, the Renault Megane, whose emissions were more than 10 times higher, and the Vauxhall Insignia, almost 10 times higher.
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The diesel Insignia is a killer Rupert, Euro 6 cars are way over the safe pollution limits in REAL WORLD tests, it has EU Merkels blessing as long as it saves BMW & VW diesel bacon they don't give a two monkeys about 100,000s of Europeans that will die as the result of putting off delaying REAL WORLD testing standards pushing them out to a later date.
