Green group T&E says car industry tried to hide CO2 emissions
The European green car group T&E (OK, the European Federation for Transport and Environment) has criticized Germany's R.L. Polk for the way it reports new-car CO2 emissions. Last year, T&E says that "R.L. Polk provided the data for the 2006 edition 'on commercial terms' but declined to supply data for this year's report," according to Automotive News Europe (subs req'd). What does "on commercial terms" mean? I'm not sure, but T&E was able to get the info through freedom of information requests. Nonetheless, T&E had to change the way it analyzed the CO2 emissions. In 2006, T&E said the European automakers are making "slow progress" with reducing those emissions. A representative from R.L. Polk said they take this matter seriously and will investigate. [Source: Automotive News Europe / Tony Lewin]
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Wes 3:21AM (11/17/2007)
A mainstream green Car that would be cool
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Karl-Uwe Strunzen 10:11AM (11/17/2007)
http://www.transportenvironment.org/docs/Publications/2007/2007-11_car_company_co2_press_release.pdf
The T&E report found that German cars are, by far, the most polluting in Europe.
Peugeot cars in 2006 emitted the lowest average of 142 grams of Co2 per km, compared with 144 grams for Fiat, 147 for Renault and 153 for Toyota.
VW, Daimler and BMW came in at a whopping 166, 185 and 184 grams per km!
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