Sentence examples for emission tests from inspiring English sources
It turns out its alleged emissions-cheat device, which was set to reduce engine output while emission tests were conducted on diesel vehicles, was also connected to the company's kill switch.
But the Brighton posse has been strangely slow to hammer VW for fiddling its NOx emission tests.
But the cruellest thing the industry did was to lobby the European commission and national governments to weaken and delay the adoption of tighter emission tests.
Local transport spokeswoman Caroline Russell urged the government to spend any fines given to carmakers caught cheating emission tests on improving public transport and walking and cycling facilities.
"We really didn't expect to find anything," German said of his research that found Volkswagen had installed sophisticated software designed to cheat strict emission tests across the world.
(AP) TRENTON: EMISSION TESTS IN DOUBT -- State officials said they might drop or delay part of the state automobile inspections scheduled to begin on July 1.
It said there had been no manipulation of emission tests, and that its vehicle exhaust systems do not distinguish between testing and the road environment.
The latest slump in the shares – they lost 7.5% on Monday – came after VW provided more detail about the 11m cars caught up in dodging the emission tests.
The US government has ordered Volkswagen to recall almost 500,000 cars after discovering that the company deployed sophisticated software to cheat emission tests allowing its cars to produce up to 40 times more pollution than allowed.
He said there is no way to know if other car companies may also have been using similar methods to trick official emission tests, but welcomed UK, German and US regulators moves to retest cars emissions on real roads.
The US Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) said on Friday that VW had installed illegal software to cheat emission tests, allowing its diesel cars to produce up to 40 times more pollution than allowed.
