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ITF study finds limited environmental and safety impacts of car fleet renewal schemes in US, France and Germany

Green Car Congress

While scrappage schemes have the potential to deliver on objectives such as reducing pollutant emissions, these have not done so as well. standards and Euro-1 cars produced from 1992 to 1996. as they could, precisely because of their design characteristics. are eroded. The US scheme saw. Earlier post.).

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Global NCAP calls for universal application of minimum vehicle safety standards in all world markets by 2020

Green Car Congress

Millions of new cars sold in middle and low income countries fail to meet the UN’s basic safety standards for front and side impacts, according to international automotive safety watchdog Global NCAP (New Car Assessment Program). By 2020 at the latest we want all new cars to meet basic standards for both crash protection and crash avoidance.

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