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Opel, Mercedes Will Face French Panel on NOx Emissions
Next week Opel and Mercedes-Benz will face a French environmental panel to explain why some of their cars emit significantly more nitrogen oxides on the road than they do in lab-based certification tests, Reuters reports.
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Next week Opel and Mercedes-Benz will face a French environmental panel to explain why some of their cars emit significantly more nitrogen oxides on the road than they do in lab-based certification tests, Reuters reports.
Renault underwent the same grilling earlier this week by the special commission, which is testing 100 car models for gaps in emission performance.
None of the companies has been charged with deliberately rigging certification results. But the panel’s tests are drawing attention to a long-running complaint by environmentalists that real-world emissions average 35% higher than their official ratings.
Carmakers, who are confident they can narrow the gap, have been calling on the EU to clarify how it plans to measure on-the-road emissions.
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