Thursday, September 24, 2015

Volkswagen: lobbying of France to retain the flaws of pollution control tests – L’Express

France, with Germany and the UK, she has played a double game on emission testing of cars? It is understood that The Guardian . According to the documents consulted by the British newspaper, the three countries have made a significant lobbying the European Commission to keep up flaws in the procedures. However, since the revelation of fraud Volkswagen’s diesel engines, Paris, London and Berlin tap their feet for a European survey on this subject.

The countries of the European Union should establish by 2017 a new type of anti-pollution test, called WLTP (for “World light vehicles test procedure”). It aims to replace old procedures dating in 1970, said the Guardian on Thursday. France, Germany and the UK have grown, there is only four months, not to address some present flaws in the old test.

According to the think tank Environmental Transport and Environment, cited by the newspaper, it would exceed 14% of European standards in automotive pollution, without getting hit on the fingers.

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To each his method

London wanted to continue to allow manufacturers to charge home batteries of its vehicles before testing . Germany, she wanted to keep the tests are made sloping and renew the authorization for manufacturers to remove 4 points on the final result of the emission control test .

France, for its part, would have pushed keep these three methods. According to the Guardian , France put forward technical arguments to explain its position, allowing a “reproduction information” found in the test.

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