Cars are assessed for their emissions as a whole and, depending on the assigned label, will have a number of advantages or disadvantages, for example, when entering large cities in our country, especially when introducing low-emission zones. most locations in the coming months.
However, the OCU denounces that the majority of plug-in hybrid vehicles generate excessive pollutant emissions and therefore should not be labeled 0therefore they call on the DGT to reconsider this label award system as unfair.
And the thing is, according to the OCU study, they show that out of the 147 cars analyzed, some vehicles with the same environmental label have very different emission levelsin particular, they talk about the 0-mark with plug-in hybrids as well as with micro-hybrids.
Concerning plug-in hybrids, we see that they are labeled 0 emissions, but there are models with a very poor environmental rating. In particular, they say that 38% of the plug-in hybrids they analyzed are highly polluting..
They add that the cars with the lowest scores fall into this category and that they are large cars with very powerful engines that consume a lot of fuel and therefore also pollute the environment heavily when they run on gasoline, when they exceed 40 km of driving on electric traction. average.
On the other hand, they talk about microhybrids, where every fourth pollutes more. They talk about the excessive emissions that are also shared by the 25% non-pluggable ECO-labeled micro-hybrids, models whose emissions are not offset by the 10% reduction in city fuel consumption that their 48V electrical system alleviates.
Finally, they also talk about diesel and petrol, there are very low emission models among C-marked models with an internal combustion engine. However, they say that in their tests, up to 9% of these C-labeled vehicles received a good environmental rating for low emissions.
Thus, the OCU condemns that the current labeling system is unfair as it is based on engine technology and not actual vehicle emissions.
They note that there is also no official publicly available data on actual emissions of pollutants that are harmful to health, so the system favors some cars over others.
They note that the current labeling system conditions citizens’ access to restricted areas in large cities, in this case discriminating against car owners, which, although less polluting, have worse labeling.
Thus, the OCU wants the environmental labeling system to be revised so cars are classified according to their actual environmental impact.
Source: Computer Hoy
