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Lobbyists Claim Fuel Consumption Stickers Are Lying And Regular Unleaded May Be Axed

The Canberra-based Australian Automobile Association (AAA – the summit group of motoring organisations like the NRMA in NSW, RAC in Queensland, Vic, WA and Tasmania) has been conducting on-road exhaust emissions and fuel consumption tests and the re


The Canberra-based Australian Automobile Association (AAA – the summit group of motoring organisations like the NRMA in NSW, RAC in Queensland, Vic, WA and Tasmania) has been conducting on-road exhaust emissions and fuel consumption tests and the results are significantly higher than those obtained in official laboratory tests - which produce the fuel consumption stickers affixed to the windscreens of new cars.

In fact, the AAA claims its tests – of a very small sample of just 17 vehicles - are showing figures for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption on average 25 percent higher, and in the worst example 60 percent higher, than the data supplied by Federal Government agencies.

In some cases that meant noxious gas emissions up to eight times over the legal limit.

The AAA launched its on-road test program following Volkswagen’s ‘dieselgate’ scandal in which the German giant was found to have fitted cars with ‘defeat’ devices which detected when a car was being tested in a laboratory and altered the engine management system to produce a performance which achieved required emissions and fuel consumption outcomes.

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