New Euro 6 Compliant Vehicles Have Higher NOx Emissions

According to a new study, all Euro 6 compliant vehicles of Europe has accounted for high-rise in NOx emissions. The Euro 6 petrol vehicles are better than the diesel vehicles. The Real Urban Emissions Initiative (TRUE) provided a ratings system to the public showing the emissions of the nitrogen oxides (NOx) calibrated for more than 90% of registrations of the passenger cars in Europe. The rating shows the response in easy Red/Green/Yellow scheme to measure poor/good/moderate level of emissions respectively for the European vehicle along with individual vehicle models and vehicle families.

Rachel Muncrief, program director, ICCT said, "This initial project is an important first step.” Further he mentioned, "but remote sensing could take us very much further in terms of our ability to monitor, analyze, and control vehicle pollutant emissions and gain control of Europe's urban air-quality problem."

TRUE is a collaboration of the Global New Car Assessment Programme, the International Council on Clean Transportation, Transport and Environment, the FIA Foundation, and C40 Cities, which want to make vehicle emissions reduced and better urban air quality. It is the collection of information to regulate the issues with air pollution from vehicles in Europe.

The International Council on Clean Transportation measured nearly 4,850 vehicle and all manufactured to follow Euro standards 3-6. Further dissection of the information deliver additional intuition into more NOx emissions in the EU. The analysis shows that 4 development group had over 12 times recorded average emissions than the Euro 6 diesel type-acceptance limit, further, the highest-emitting vehicle family has recorded for 18 times more than the emissions limit.

Although Euro 6 diesel models recorded going away from the Euro 6 diesel NOX emissions accounted limit as calibrated in the real world. The petrol Euro 6 vehicle family emitting highest has the same level in NOx emissions as compared to the lowest-emitting diesel vehicle family. The Euro 5 diesel families accounted for poor record in NOx emissions which is 2 times the limit, the worst record was 18 times than the limit.

Presently the data keeps 750,000 records including records from Sweden, Spain, France, the United Kingdom and Switzerland for initial purposes in total ten year period. Keeping aside the unfinished measurements, total 375,000 measurements are included in the TRUE ratings.