Sentence examples similar to real world emission from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, in the real world, emissions continue to pile on and impacts stack.

Environmentalists have long known about the gap between lab testing of car emissions and what we observe in real world emissions.

Testing regimes in the EU are known to fail to pick up "real world" emissions because cars are not driven in the same way in the laboratory as on the road.

"In conclusion, the main reason why the UK has not been able to achieve full compliance with the NO2 limit value is that despite the introduction of vehicles meeting increasingly stringent Euro standards, real world emissions of NOX from many vehicle classes have been considerably higher than anticipated".

Among the new models tested that are meant to comply with the Euro 6 standard were the Ford Focus, which had a real-world emission about eight times above the EU limit, the Renault Megane, whose emissions were more than 10 times higher, and the Vauxhall Insignia, almost 10 times higher.

Note, however, that the growing discrepancy between type approval and real-world emission rates serves to neutralise a large part of the improvement.8 Open image in new window Fig. 8 Average type approval CO2 emission rates of new petrol and diesel driven passenger cars registered in Norway 1992 2011, by fuel type, kg curb weight and year of first registration.

"MEPs have been fighting for years to reform EU rules on diesel emissions-testing so they reflect real-world emissions.

The Vehicle Certification Agency, which oversees emissions test in the UK has since said it will re-run laboratory testing to compare to real-world emissions.

For a very long time there has been a widening of the gap between the real-world emissions we measured and the ones companies claim in their brochures".

It also emerges that Germany was aware of defeat devices and that Britain, France and Germany had lobbied to dilute proposed real-world emissions tests for diesel engines, now delayed until at least 2017.

There are plans to introduce a new on-road test that will measure the real-world emissions of diesel cars, but it will not apply to all new EU cars until 2018 at the earliest.