News Digest Item
12 Oct 2016

VW decides to give “more realistic” CO2 emission data

Süddeutsche Zeitung

More than a year after the start of the Dieselgate scandal, VW has said it will no longer exploit all legal possibilities to lower the official emission data of cars, report Klaus Ott and Katja Riedel in Süddeutsche Zeitung. The company said it had decided to “quote more realistic CO2 figures” for its cars. The switch will result in an average increase of two grams of CO2 emissions per kilometre. VW’s move could have expensive consequences for the entire industry, because EU regulations force it to lower emissions below 95 grams by 2020/21, according to the report.

Read a Reuters-Report on VW’s move in German here

For background, read the CLEW factsheet Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility.

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