Ministry knew of tampering with diesel emissions

Gepubliceerd op 30 september 2015 om 10:45

The Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment had been on the pitch that is manipulated on a large scale in the Netherlands with the emissions from diesel cars.

Ministerie wist van geknoei met dieseluitstoot

Nevertheless, the ministry does not know which manufacturers tamper with it. That reports De Volkskrant.

MISSING INFORMATION
The ministry has let produce reports about the pollution from cars, but herein is missing information about brands and models. Which cars exceed the emissions standards is therefore not known. Following the recent unrest will be investigated further here, but the ministry could not say how soon this will happen.

According to TNO, which has conducted many field tests are also other brands than Volkswagen demonstrable differences between the emissions in the lab and on the road. It is therefore possible that other manufacturers use "defeat devices", devices that disable systems in order to achieve lower emissions.

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