The German trade magazine
Auto Bild reports that road tests conducted by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) found the diesel BMW X3 20d Xdrive guilty of emitting more than eleven times more NOx gases than the limits of Euro 6, Europe’s latest diesel engine emission legislations. Oh boy.
If true, this proves that
the dieselgate disaster is far from being a Volkswagen-specific issue. While BMW X5 passed its test in California done by the same people who found out about about Volkswagen’s cheat software,
the ICCT suggested before that BMW, Opel and Mercedes-Benz can be in trouble as well.
The data
Auto Bild is going to print tomorrow shows that while the U.S. market Volkswagen Jetta 2.0 TDI exceeds Euro 6 NOx levels by a whopping 22.61 times, the Euro-spec BMW X3 20d Xdrive performs worse than the American VW Passat 2.0 TDI, exceeding the target figure by almost 12 times.
The relevant Euro 6 standard for diesel emissions is 0.08g/km (or 0.12g/mi). The EPA’s current relevant standard (Tier 2, Bin5) is 0.05g/mi (or 0.03g/km). That makes European standard about two and a half times as lax as the American one.
So far, BMW issued a statement saying that their cars are not equipped with a cheat software, while Daimler says they work together with all the relevant authorities and disavow manipulative accusations by any organizations.
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