Leerrijk oud artikel van februari 2014 over de Europese "clean-diesel-propaganda" 1,5 jaar voor dieselgate ontdekt werd:
http://www.hybridcars.com/will-ameri...esel-problems/
Ze hadden er toen al geen vertrouwen in, en ze hadden toen al duidelijke signalen ontvangen van de Europese Commissie dat het Europees dieselbeleid qua NOx al ca. 20 jaar een flop was. En dat ze minstens moesten wachten op de veel striktere Euronorm 6 van 2017 of best nog later, en vooral op realistische labotesten, want de euro 5 van 2014 was helemaal niet realistisch, kwam mss overeen met een echte euronorm 1 van 1992...
Ook de NOx-metingen in Europese steden toonden duidelijk aan dat er iets niet klopte, bijna overal werd de WHO NOx-grenswaarde van 40 duidelijk overschreden, zelfs 3-4 maal in Londen... vooral in de landen met veel dieselvoertuigen.
Citaat:
Will America Avoid Europe’s ‘Clean’ Diesel Problems?
JEFF COBB FEBRUARY 11, 2014
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Lessons From Europe
Although the WHO lacked data on clean diesels, and suggested public health may improve with them, the European Union admitted two months ago its emission policies have been ineffective for two decades.
Janez Potocnik, member of the European Commission in charge of Environment said in December 2013 that since 1992 Euro 1 through Euro 5 regulations have failed to spur improved diesel emissions, particularly regarding NOx. He said stricter “Euro 6” regulations to replace Euro 5 this September must correct this.
“The problem is, the tests which are done in the laboratory do not correspond to the actual performance on the street and that’s absolutely what we have to fix,” said Potocnik in a video clip (after the 9-minute mark). “The actual situation is such that the [emissions] performance on the street today its basically somewhere around the level of the standards that were set in Euro 1. This was by the way, in 1992.”
But Simon Birkett, founder and director of Clean Air in London, said Americans should try to avoid mistakes from which Europeans now suffer.
“In terms of harmful air pollutants, diesel exhaust has been a public health catastrophe for Europe,” said Birkett.
His organization is urging London’s mayor “to issue formal smog warnings to save lives, avoid hospitalisations and build public understanding of air pollution.”
In London, one hundred air monitors positioned around the city reveal air quality that is as much as 3-4 times higher than WHO guidelines.
“Mistakenly, Europe has allowed diesel vehicles to emit vastly more of the harmful pollutants than petrol vehicles in the same category in its pursuit for somewhat illusory CO2 emission reductions from diesel,” said Birkett. “Carcinogenic diesel exhaust is likely to plague European cities for the foreseeable future and campaigners are seeking to have it banned from the most polluted places by 2020.”
Birkett says he is “worried that European vehicle emission standards continue to underperform and won’t begin to require more realistic test cycles until 2017 or later.”
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Maar blijkbaar geloofde "men" eerder de dieselpropaganda van Europese constructeurs die hun (sjoemel)diesels wilden slijten ... tot september 2015...