The European Union just came out with an official report: REAL-WORLD emissions versus the new WLTP cycle. The results are *UNBELIEVABLE!!* PHEVs emit on average THREE AND A HALF TIMES MORE than the official test claims! climate-energy.eea.europa.eu/topics/transpo…
Researchers know since 2012 or so that EU tests are bollox and only useful as an illustration of "regulatory capture". In my texts explaining how to calculate CO2 emissions I refer to it as "Error 4" (of 6). sciencedirect.com/science/articl… researchgate.net/publication/37…
Ror combustion cars the new WLTP is doing better with "only" 21% (instead of 50%) energy use underestimation. climate-energy.eea.europa.eu/topics/transpo… (By the way: the EPA in the US is doing great. So this really is a regulatory capture problem. The cause is not that doing measurements is hard.)
Regarding PHEVs this is beyond the pale. Any PHEV policy using EU WLTP measurements should be relegated to the recycle bin immediately. And the responsible authors and lobbyists should be ashamed imho.
According to these tests, it's actually worse than @transenv's conservative test demonstrated in 2021. Back then @juliepolie already put it very well: “Plug-in hybrids are fake electric cars, built for lab tests and tax breaks, not real driving." euractiv.com/section/electr…
So does that mean that the EU should completely stop giving tax breaks to PHEVs? In my considered opinion... YES!! There are situations in which PHEVs are a good transition option, but the EU is simply unable to regulate them, and BEVs are the end-game anyway, so why bother?
@AukeHoekstra @transenv @juliepolie Here some data of my hybrid car, is this bad?