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Close Newsletter Free mobile app Get 6 issues for £1 Car News Car Reviews Best Cars Car Deals Choose a make Choose a model Vans Videos Accessories & Tyres Opinion Used Cars Driver Power Tips & Advice Winter car Win an Astra This week's Tell us about checklist - for a year! issue of Auto your car to preparing your Express win £2k of car for winter prizes Home Car news Consumer news SEARCH THE SITE Exclusive: Car makers 'can't meet' Euro6 emissions targets Consumer news News Exclusive: Car makers 'can't meet' Euro6 emissions targets FROM AROUND THE Sponsored Links WEB We Tried Blue Watch: MS Apron: Here's Doesn’t Stop Julie 3 Oct , 2015 9:40am Jo e Finnert y What Happened Roberts’ Life Liberty Project for HealthiNation FACEBOOK With the VW Group emissions scandal in full swing, car makers ask EU regulators to lower NOx emissions targets for new cars The car industry has admitted that makers can’t meet 2020 diesel pollution targets and want to almost double Euro 6 10 Coolest Cars 10 Stars from limits under new tests, Auto Express understands. Under $25,000 Commercials - Kelley Blue Book Who Are They… More like this Its been revealed by an EU insider that the European Answers Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) is asking for a by Taboola NEWS “conformity factor” of 1.7, whereby cars would be given Euro 6 status for emitting 0.136g/km of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from 2020. Most read Policymakers are planning a zero-tolerance approach on the 0.080g/km Euro 6 limit from 2020, but have agreed a two- 1. FEATURES English councils make phase implementation with softer regulations in place for Best new cars record parking profits 2017 to 2020. for 2016 NEWS • VW emissions scandal: everything you need to know NEWS • VW emissions scandal: everything you need to know FEATURES 2. Vauxhall Astra However, the insider said the ACEA wants to push this Special further and is asking for compliance for cars emitting 2.75 times the Euro 6 limits during the first three-year period. That’s equal to 0.220g/km – a figure that wouldn’t even 3. 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Mercedes E- All new cars to be zero Class 2016: full emissions vehicles by • How to test cars for real-world mpg and emissions 2050 details and latest images NEWS Julia Poliscanova, clean vehicles officer for Transport & Environment – a campaign group involved in the technical Euro 6 discussions – said progress on deciding the finer workings had been slow. She told us: “It’s simply unacceptable that instead of concentrating on fitting the right technology and meeting UK car journey data the standard on the road, the industry is still busy stored for two years, but weakening the law so it can concentrate on manipulating the is it legal? tests instead.” Ads • Best low emissions green cars on sale now Kid Rock's An ACEA spokeswoman defended its position, adding: “In Home Is Not At order to say what would be the right conformity factor, you need the full RDE package. 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Fine by me. 4 • Reply • Share › veryveryoldfella > Pargeter • 2 months ago Pure electric... power generation itself is a cause of pollution, just imagine how much we would need if we all changed over enmasse. power generating grid cope with the demand? There are no easy answers to this problem, glib comments don't help. BTW I run a 1.4 petrol so have no axe to grind as such. 1 • Reply • Share › Janner > veryveryoldfella • 2 months ago UK Power gen is 44% NOx and particulates free (Renewables and nuclear), and 30% gas, which is substantially particulates free with much, much lower NOx than and internal combustion engine. remaining 26% isn't so clean but is being replaced in the near term. Typical driver would use about 2,500 kWHrs of electricity per annum 25 million 'average UK cars' or 62.5 TWHrs against a UK year of 336 TWHrs so an 18% increase in electricity production. The answers are here now and over the next few years - hybrids, range-extenders and all-electrics; prices are coming down and range going up. A rapid take up of electric cars would take around 15 years for most new cars to be electric and a further 20 years for very few ICE cars to be left on the road. electricity generation to be increased and a charging infrastructure to be improved. Electric cars are fun, fast and really cheap to run. see more 1 • Reply • Share › veryveryoldfella > Janner • 2 months ago I agree they are fast, fun and cheap to run, I test drove a Tesla Model S. Price, and a long waiting list seems to me to be the only reasons to cause hesitation after driving one. I think you may well be right about the future, I hope I am around to see it. • Reply • Share › pazuzu001 > veryveryoldfella • At the moment, the biggest limit (in my opinion) is the infrastructure. If one drives no more than 200-250 miles/day, overnight recharging at home is fine. Regular long(er) range journeys are very dependent on where the charging points are and how many networks one subscribes to. • Reply • Share › soldierboy001 > pazuzu001 • 2 months ago Ah yes the infrastructure, OK if you have a drive, but what about all those flats, terraced onto the street with 2/3 cars per household etc.? • Reply • Share › pazuzu001 > soldierboy001 • 2 months ago That's still infrastructure - though it's a different issue with it that you raise. • Reply • Share › soldierboy001 > pazuzu001 • 2 months ago I am talking about charge point infrastructure not housing infrastructure.
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