Europe's carmakers 'tricking' drivers on fuel efficiency, new report claims
- 9 years ago
Europe’s carmakers are taking their customers for ride by tricking them into believing their vehicles are more fuel-efficient than they actually are.
It means drivers are spending an extra four hundred and fifty euros a year on fuel as a result.
Those are the findings from a new report by lobby group Transport and Environment
Their research found the Mercedes A, C and E class, BMW’s 5 series and Peugeot 308 are out in front.
They say the cars consume 50 percent more fuel on road than they did in their lab test results.
“At the present time the tests are carried out by the manufacturers’ own laboratories, they are carried out by people been paid for, by the carmakers themselves, and even the organisations overseeing those tests are being paid by the car industry,” said Greg Archer of Transport and Environment.
Euronews tried to contact the carmakers in question, but our calls went answered.
But the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), which represents the
It means drivers are spending an extra four hundred and fifty euros a year on fuel as a result.
Those are the findings from a new report by lobby group Transport and Environment
Their research found the Mercedes A, C and E class, BMW’s 5 series and Peugeot 308 are out in front.
They say the cars consume 50 percent more fuel on road than they did in their lab test results.
“At the present time the tests are carried out by the manufacturers’ own laboratories, they are carried out by people been paid for, by the carmakers themselves, and even the organisations overseeing those tests are being paid by the car industry,” said Greg Archer of Transport and Environment.
Euronews tried to contact the carmakers in question, but our calls went answered.
But the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), which represents the