U.S. Emission Tests Are Unrealistic, But European Testing Is Far Worse

The ongoing Volkswagen diesel-emissions scandal has, to say the least, exposed weaknesses in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) testing regime. VW was able to get away with installing “cheat” software on 482,000 cars from model years 2009 to 2015. But it wasn’t until independent researchers tested one of these cars that the deception… …read more