Pollution: after the “Volkswagen software”, another tip … – Europe1

Europe 1 GS Pierre-Baptiste Vanzini and Julian Pearce Published at 7:33, October 1, 2015 , Modified at 8:49, October 1, 2015

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GS with Pierre-Baptiste Vanzini and Julian Pearce

EUROPE SURVEY 1 – In the Volkswagen scandal, now arises a question: there he has more cheating software on anti-pollution standards? According to the information obtained by Europe 1, another system used by many manufacturers (foreign as French) would allow their vehicles to pass safely antipollution tests.

A flanged motor. Everything from a statement of the technicians in charge of these tests. They wonder that several vehicles be “restrained” when tested to the judgment, as required by the procedure. Clearly, it is impossible for them to check if these cars are clean or not. The technician beautiful on the accelerator, very quickly, the engine tops. He stops usually at 2,500 rpm, or about half of its capacity

This view is shared by the thirty technical inspection centers contacted by Europe 1. The catch:. To achieve a pollution control, the technician is supposed to push the engine to its limits, to 4000 minutes rounds and beyond. It is even the regulatory process, at work throughout Europe. And it is obviously impossible with a flanged motor. “Concretely, 2,500 rounds, there is no pollution coming out. It’s very rare that are denied those vehicles,” said one of the technicians at the microphone Europe 1, which provides that “all Volkswagen and Audi do, but also Peugeot, Renault, Citroën “(Europe 1 attended a test on a Peugeot utility).

  
  With the complicity of the authorities ?  Utilities, sedans, urban ... All types of vehicles are concerned. According to professionals, this limitation has appeared from 2008. And it is precisely on July 1 of that year that is coming into force a new emissions standard, more draconian, requiring manufacturers to divide the emissions of their vehicles . by two 
  
 What you should know is that the technical controls are overseen by a body approved by the Ministry of Transport: UTAC-OTC. This organization sends to the various centers of technical notes, specific slant vehicles. On one of them we have procured, it appears very clearly that the organization is aware of this clamping system. Worse: he asked the technicians to make the tests as if nothing had happened. At the risk of distorting the result. 
    
   
 JB Vanzini / Europe1 
  
  
    
  safe device or "hack"?  When contacted, UTAC-OTC unresponsive reporters and returns directly to the Ministry of Transport, which has so far not responded. For their part, Peugeot-Citroen and Renault explain that this limitation is there to protect the motors. Indeed, with a diesel, if you press the accelerator too long and up while you're standing still, you may break the motor. 
  
 But according to several specialists contacted by Europe 1, including a motor mechanical engineer who works daily to Renault Peugeot and Citroën, there are no doubts: if the risk of engine failure is real, this limitation is primarily a "trick" a "hack" for testing. Words similar to Volkswagen software.