Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty electric truck, with a range of up to 200 km, is in intensive use by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”. eCitaro vehicles were also delivered to Luxembourg and Switzerland. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2017

Based on a three-year study of toxic and environmentally relevant pollutants from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, Swiss researchers have concluded that some GDI engines emit just as many soot particles as unfiltered diesel cars did in the past. Further, the GDI particles carry numerous carcinogenic substances.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). Since September 2017, a new test procedure, the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), has to be followed for new vehicle types. From laboratory to road: A 2017 update of official and “real-world” fuel consumption and CO 2 values for passenger cars in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

United Kingdom); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). This procedure was developed in the 1980s and was not originally intended to be used for fuel consumption testing but air pollutants. Manufacturers appear to be taking advantage of permitted flexibilities in the NEDC, resulting in lower CO 2 emission values.

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