2017: EU wants fuel consumption measurement in cars from 2020

For the insider, it is a defense against large-scale fraud; for the uninformed citizen, it is the total surveillance state. Background information on the planned consumption measurement.






  NEDC and practice with 3 cars


NEDC stands for New European Driving Cycle and is the measurement standard for passenger cars currently valid in the EU. The Opel Ampera, Dacia Lodgy and BMW 7 Series Plug-in Hybrid are compared.

Car NEDC Spritmonitor Difference
Opel Ampera 1,2 2,06 72%
Dacia Lodgy 90 PS Diesel 4,2 5,16 23%
BMW 7 Series Plug-in Hybrid 2,2 8,82 301%


At the time when the Opel Ampera was designed, there was the dream of a plug-in hybrid, 100 km electric range, the rest with the combustion engine, 80% electric 20% gasoline. The Opel Ampera came quite close to this dream. About 70% electric, 30% gasoline.

  The well-informed plug-in hybrid buyer


The Opel Ampera represents the well-informed plug-in hybrid buyer, the car was bought to suit the driving profile. For decades, every car magazine has been asking the question of gasoline or diesel. This usually boils down to up to so many kilometers per year gasoline, from so many kilometers per year diesel. With plug-in hybrids, however, it also depends on the distribution of distances. For example, 2 drivers with 30,000 km per year each can have completely different results.

Driver A is a long-distance commuter. Charge at home, 50 km to the company, charge at the company, 50 km home. That's 100% electric. The petrol engine is only used for long weekend trips and vacations. This is the ideal plug-in hybrid customer.

Driver B is a trade journalist. Geneva Motor Show, Hanover Industrial Fair, IAA Frankfurt, Forum New Energy World Berlin. If only the first 80 km from Salzburg to Hanover are driven on electricity, then it is 10% electricity, 90% gasoline. The most unfavorable plug-in hybrid customer imaginable. With an Opel Ampera, I would probably have come up with 30% electricity, 70% gasoline.

But even with the Opel Ampera, we see that the standard consumption formula for plug-in hybrids is very manipulative: 72% between standard and practice.

  The unadvised plug-in hybrid buyer


In 2015, I experienced a total refusal of advice at the IAA Frankfurt. "The fuel consumption is on the sign". This is how the BMW 7 Series Plug-in Hybrid was also sold, and I suspect even mainly to the most unfavorable plug-in hybrid customers imaginable: Business people who constantly drive long distances. The values on Spritmonitor.de suggest 30% electricity, 70% gasoline.

301% deviation between standard and practice is absolutely record-breaking.

  The EU wants to evaluate practical consumption


If BMW had only sold the 7 Series Plug-in Hybrid to medium-distance commuters after extensive consultations and determining the driving profile - the electric range is too short for long-distance commuters - Spritmonitor.de would probably only show 4 to 5 liters instead of 8.82 liters.

You could now come up with incredibly complicated regulations for standard consumption. So complicated, in fact, that a consumption meter in every car is a very simple solution by comparison. This also takes into account the different driving behavior of customers. Someone who buys a Dacia will be closer to the NEDC in their driving behavior than someone who buys a 300 hp car from BMW because of the slogan "driving pleasure".

  Aiding and abetting fraud


With the current standard consumption procedure, plug-in hybrids can comply with the fleet standards specified by the EU on paper at any time. An attempt to fend off this new standard must therefore be seen as aiding and abetting fraud.

The German government in particular must be urgently warned against such aiding and abetting fraud.

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  Angela Merkel and the car industry


Let's take a look at the performance of the governments under Angela Merkel in a less emotional area than refugee policy: the automotive industry.

1992: The Rügen Experiment
From 1992 to 1996, research minister Heinz Riesenhuber and environment minister Angela Merkel demonstrated the unsuitability of electric cars on the island of Rügen.


2007: The Merkel failure begins
The first appeal to Merkel to prevent the German car industry from resting on its laurels and falling behind was made on January 31, 2007.


2008: Merkel in the oil price crisis
The oil price crisis should have led to important industrial policy decisions in the German car industry. Instead, pathetic whining for lower oil prices


2009: China announces drastic licensing regulations
The Chinese counterpart to Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel: "Have you seen a single petrol scooter? They don't exist any more, they can no longer be registered, only electric scooters".


2010: Electric car with a range of 300 km
The sensation at the Geneva Motor Show: the first family-friendly electric car with a range of 300 km. With the BYD e6, electromobility is breaking out of narrow niche markets.


2011: The fraud formula for plug-in hybrid consumption measurement
Germany has been unable to reduce the EU's CO2 emission targets for the car industry. But the cheating formula for the whitewashing of plug-in hybrids is working.


2012: Electric Bus Conference Munich
Grotesque differences in consumption between electric buses and hydrogen fuel cell buses. Nevertheless, a lot of research money continues to be sunk into hydrogen vehicles.


2013: Study on the market launch of electric cars
The German car industry has even managed to corrupt the state-affiliated Fraunhofer research institute. An unscientific study on the market for electric cars shows this.


2014: Tesla announces 50 GWh battery factory
The size of the planned factory shows the intention to sell not only in the luxury class. With the production capacity, a broad attack on the upper mid-range is possible.


2015: VW Dieselgate
Large-scale fraud as industrial policy and the consequences if it is discovered. German politicians have systematically created an environment in which Volkswagen thought it could get away with it.


2016: China shock 8% quota rule for electric cars
Years of deep sleep in the German car industry, a few rolling declarations of abandonment to claim that they were building electric cars. But then the wake-up call from China.


2017: Merkel sees black for the German car industry
At a meeting with her colleagues from the EU according to information from SPIEGEL, the Chancellor touched on a sensitive topic: the foreseeable decline of a German flagship industry.


2018: Diesel driving ban
Germany does not have a government, but a reaction. Instead of active shaping, there is only reaction to disasters of all kinds.




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