Peugeot And Citroen To Move To ‘Real World’ Fuel Figures

In a pre-emptive move to distance itself from the Volkswagen Diselgate saga, PSA Peugeot Citroen has announced that it will make the move to ‘realistic’ fuel consumption reporting from 2016.

The French company maintains that it does not employ defeat devices, or other test-detecting tactics in any of its vehicles.

A new fuel consumption testing procedure, WLTP (Worldwide harmonised Light vehicles Test Procedure) is currently being developed by regulators in Europe, Japan and India, and will take the place of the NEDC (New European Driving Cycle) last updated in 1997.

Although PSA hasn’t stated that it will adopt WLTP test procedures for the ‘real world’ figures it intends to publish, the company does support the adoption of the new test system, which is more representative of real world driving conditions.
PSA also admits that the current NEDC system allows for ‘testing optimisations’ and admits that it has taken advantage of those optimisations.

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