12 Sep 2017

"Government wants new CO2-testing procedure"

Deutscher Bundestag

The German government is working at the EU level to ensure testing methods that measure the real driving emissions of motor vehicles are also developed for CO2, according to a press release from the German parliament. Replying to an enquiry by the Left Party, the government said real driving emissions tests were not currently part of European type-approval regulations. "The determination of CO2 emissions was carried out according to the legal regulations,” the government said in response to Left Party accusations that emissions tests had been designed to present automakers “in a good light”.

Read the press release in German here.

Read the Federal Government reply in its entirety here.

For background, read the CLEW news article "Win for car industry" - First reactions to German diesel summit

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