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Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co |
"One 1.2-litre vehicle had similar on-road fuel consumption to several 2-litre cars, and a hybrid SUV had higher petrol consumption than a similar-sized conventional SUV" It truly blows my mind how widespread the emissions cheating fraud is, across the fossil car industry
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Thomas Hansen
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Thankfully the ICE car industry is the only fraudulent ones… Elon Musk: Hold my subsidized billion dollar greenwashing ponzi beer!
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Michael R Lambert
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Thank you.
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wildmonkeysects™
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Many industries send cherry picked samples to be tested for approval, and often hacked samples. We are all Volkswagen.
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Liz 🧡 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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Glenn Forrest
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I would love to see an electric/natural gas hybrid.
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Minnie’s mum
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Sorry I’ll try again… last post was full of typos! This article is depressing but not surprising. However, I’m a bit confused about the hybrid SUV. Does it mean it uses more petrol when in fuel mode, or something else?
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Rod Maxwell
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You would never expect two different testing regimes to produce exactly the same results but this sounds like a variation of Goodhart's law, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". Cars designed to do well on the test, not on the road.
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Alexandria Brangwin
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Can't escape the laws of physics & thermodynamics. It's all about how much weight and how fast! ....but a smaller 1000cc engine made of say aluminium and silicon weighs less than a cast iron 4.0L V8.
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Peter Anderson
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While not at all suggesting emissions cheating doesn't happen, it shouldn't be at all surprising car A uses more than car B when there are websites all over the world that report real-world fuel usage.
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Napoleon the Chemist
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The 1.2 liter is probably turbo charged. With a turbo, compression ratio goes down and that reduces thermal efficiency. In boost, it uses even more fuel to keep combustion temps down to avoid preignition, even *further* reducing efficiency. Real-world driving usually uses more power than tests do.
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Dr M
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I feel like 10% might be acceptable given general reproducibility issues. But anything more than that is red flag/fine time
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ZacktheScumbag-ceasefire plz
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why are you surprised? Its capitalism baby! If you aren't lying, ripping someone off, or cheating on taxes you arent winning! cough cough...cant believe this is the second day in a row I am coughing up blood.
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Climate News
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And the German word for internal combustion engine cars is “Brenner” which means “burners”. Explains a lot on several levels.
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Marissa Chappell Exdeath
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Everyone is Volkswagen!
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