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...]
Ford’s Emissions Problem
The issue of emissions from vehicles is still an interesting topic. In a recent article Motoring Weekly described how FIAT Chrysler were buying credits from Tesla to offset the emissions coming from their fleet in advance of a change in regulation by the EU. We have seen further investigations into VW, BMW and Daimler Benz for their emission test results and now we have Ford in … [Read more...]
FCA Buys Credits from Tesla
This is an interesting bending of the rules - similar to the Volkswagen Group developing software to detect when a car is being tested such that the correct test results are delivered. FIAT Chrysler (FCA) is working with Tesla to lower the fleet emissions such that they won't get fined by the EU. FCA has already had to pay $800M a couple of years ago to settle a US lawsuit … [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...]
The GOFAR Ray
If you follow the Motoring Weekly Instagram account or have seen the page on the web site, you will know that we fitted a GOFAR Ray to the Abarth. Late last year we did a road trip to Broken Hill and spent four days on the road - two travelling there through Hay and up the Silver City Highway and then two days back using the Barrier Highway through Cobar and Nyngan and then … [Read more...]