I suppose we have been waiting for this type of study to be released. Thanks to several cities announcing that they will ban all carbon-fuelled vehicles within 15 years and the VW “Dieselgate” scandal where emissions were found to be higher in real world usage than the testing suggested - Motoring Weekly has written many articles on this - electric cars have become the next … [Read more...]
German Manufacturers Charged with Collusion
Well this is a damaging blow to the “vorsprung durch technik” aka progress through technology line spun by one German manufacturer. The EU has expanded on the VW Group emissions testing scandal by laying more charges against VW, Audi and Porsche along with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, in other words, pretty much all of Germany’s mainstream manufacturers! In the original issue, … [Read more...]
Californian Legislation Affects All Motorists
Several of my articles have discussed that fact that a single entity can influence changes in car design or fuel usage. California is one such entity. Over 50 years ago the State of California started to push for emission controls that would affect the whole car industry. California has the biggest population of any State in the USA and is the third biggest by land mass. … [Read more...]
More Comments on Government Involvement with Diesel Emissions
In a recent post called Government Responsibility in VW Scandal, I suggested that there was more to the story about VW being caught "cheating" on the diesel emissions test and that there really wasn't a "scandal". Several recent news reports have backed up my thoughts that this was a wider issue neglected by the Governments across the globe for various reasons. The first was … [Read more...]
The VW (Vulture War) Scandal
I'm being a little cheeky with the title - however it probably does sum up the current situation quite well. The vultures are circling and fighting over what basically is a non-story with Governments and lawyers drooling over the money they can get and Volkswagen have rightly set aside billions to cover fines and other charges. The Scandal Well this started by independent … [Read more...]