<
https://thedriven.io/2024/04/18/toyotas-plug-in-hybrids-emit-four-times-more-co2-than-company-claims/>
"Millions of well-meaning Toyota plug-in hybrid owners will be outraged to
learn they’ve been burning through four times more petrol and producing four
times more emissions than they were led to believe by the world’s largest
automaker.
New data released by the European Union Environment Agency shows car makers are
substantially overestimating the efficiency of their vehicles for petrol,
diesel and plug-in hybrid models.
The study, which uses real-world data on over half-a-million vehicles, found
that car companies are underestimating CO2 emissions per kilometre driven by
19% for petrol vehicles and 15% for diesel cars.
However, it is hybrids where the WLTP (World Harmonised Light vehicle Test
Procedure) figures, which are used by car companies for official
specifications, are staggeringly out of sync with the actual real-world data
collected by the European Union.
While the average WLTP CO2 emissions figure across 123,740 hybrids sold in the
EU was just 39.59 g/km of CO2, the actual real-world average for those vehicles
was 139.39 g/km. An enormous gap of around 100g/km with the real-world figure
3.5 times higher than the WLTP figure."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
