Sentence examples for emissions test from inspiring English sources
noun
A measurement performed on motor vehicles, required by the DMV, to prevent issuing valid registration if an excessive amount of waste fumes are produced during typical use. Cars typically are placed on a dynamometer to simulate different driving speeds.
Colin Moynihan (NYT) ALBANY: STATE POSTPONES EMISSIONS TEST The State Department of Motor Vehicles yesterday postponed the introduction of its more stringent auto emissions test in upstate New York to Dec. 1 to give service stations an extra six weeks to comply with a statewide effort to reduce air pollution under the federal Clean Air Act.
Funded by the Valley Air District, participant vehicles undergo an emissions test and, upon failing, will receive a voucher worth $850 toward approved emissions-related repairs.
(AP) DARIEN: 2 ACCUSED OF EMISSIONS TEST BRIBES -- Two men were arrested yesterday and charged with trying to bribe workers at the state vehicle emissions testing station here.
In February, the governor ordered that the 15 busiest stations revert to the less stringent, faster emissions test.
The EU revised the regulations in February, including the introduction of an emissions test involving more realistic driving conditions.
The emissions test, required every two years, costs $20; cars that fail must be repaired and tested again.
The emissions test scandal at Volkswagen is not simply bad for one of the world's more successful car companies.
The chief executive of Volkswagen has quit following revelations that the German carmaker has cheating emissions test in the US.
The company is under pressure to compensate millions of customers and there are moves towards a new emissions test in Europe.
Drivers with cellular phones, he posited, might then receive a call telling them the bad news: they had just flunked an emissions test.
Under the bill, the inspections stations would administer only the old emissions test, which is far less rigorous, costly and time-consuming.
