{"id":156355,"date":"2017-01-31T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/eu-cracks-down-as-diesel-scandal-exposes-lax-tests-country-by-country\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:30:00","slug":"eu-cracks-down-as-diesel-scandal-exposes-lax-tests-country-by-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/eu-cracks-down-as-diesel-scandal-exposes-lax-tests-country-by-country\/","title":{"rendered":"EU cracks down as diesel scandal exposes lax tests country by country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1108631_eu-cracks-down-as-diesel-scandal-exposes-lax-tests-country-by-country\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/portable-emissions-measurement-systems-pems-on-a-peugeot-308_100557877_t.gif?w=90\" alt=\"Portable Emissions Measurement Systems (PEMS) on a Peugeot 308\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Volkswagen diesel scandal has led to much greater scrutiny on the methods regulatory agencies use to test vehicle emissions, particularly in Europe. Even before news of Volkswagen&#8217;s diesel &#8220;defeat device&#8221; software broke, the European fuel-economy testing cycle was known to be overly optimistic, producing results that buyers could not replicate&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1108631_eu-cracks-down-as-diesel-scandal-exposes-lax-tests-country-by-country\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1108631_eu-cracks-down-as-diesel-scandal-exposes-lax-tests-country-by-country\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/portable-emissions-measurement-systems-pems-on-a-peugeot-308_100557877_t.gif\" alt=\"Portable Emissions Measurement Systems (PEMS) on a Peugeot 308\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Volkswagen diesel scandal has led to much greater scrutiny on the methods regulatory agencies use to test vehicle emissions, particularly in Europe. Even before news of Volkswagen&#8217;s diesel &#8220;defeat device&#8221; software broke, the European fuel-economy testing cycle was known to be overly optimistic, producing results that buyers could not replicate&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1108631_eu-cracks-down-as-diesel-scandal-exposes-lax-tests-country-by-country\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}