Vauxhall says it has become the first mainstream volume manufacturer to achieve full RDE2 compliance across its entire model line-up, giving company car drivers and businesses significant savings. Meeting the second phase of the European Union Real Driving Emissions (RDE) test will become mandatory for all new diesel vehicles registered after January 2021. Now Vauxhall says it has achieved compliance nearly a year ahead of the legislation for its entire model line-up, including the all-new Corsa and new Astra.
If I poke a couple of fingers up my (Euro-6) Mazda’s tailpipe and wiggle them around (donít worry, itís not habit-forming) they emerge unsullied; do the same trick with a similarly-modern petrol vehicle, and I get sooty fingers! Do you think this says anything more general about relative levels of carbon particulate emissions in the […]
Volvo has become the first car manufacturer in the UK to homologate its entire model range under the new Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP). All Volvo petrol, diesel and hybrid models now comply with the stringent ‘Euro 6d-temp’ standard for tailpipe emissions, as part of the firm’s model-year 2019 range update which started production in April.
Headlines in the media regarding diesel cars are becoming rather familiar and much of it concerns emissions, which of course are quite closely related to fuel economy. The more fuel that you burn in your car, the more emissions you will inevitably create, although the relationships to the various types of gaseous emissions are somewhat […]
With its completely newly developed family of diesel engines, Mercedes-Benz says it is the first manufacturer to put diesel vehicles on the market that already fulfil the stricter emission limits planned for the EU as of September 2017.
