The European Commission says our cars spend 20% more

ANDIt was an intuition that we all had: our cars spend more than manufacturers advertiseeven with the new one WLTP homologation cycle that since 2017, and theoretically, was closer to real conditions conductivity.

What has changed is that… now This is no longer intuition, but confidence. And it has been proven European Commissionorganization whose mission was to study correlation of data offered by manufacturers with real ones and has now published the results of this study for the first time.

16 to 318 percent more

The study was conducted with information about the new car (mainly cars, but also vans) registered from 2021 in Europe, received through on-board fuel consumption monitoring devices (OBFCM)

definitely from this year.

Were analyzed data of almost a million carsalthough after screening out unrepresentative ones (for example, those who traveled less than 500 km) Figures confirmed for 617,194 passenger cars and 6,667 vans.. EC gives slap the producers since it states that “only a small number of manufacturers provided data for a significant proportion of their vehicles. entered in 2021″ and demanded them for the future”extra effort significantly improve vehicle fleet coverage.”

main conclusion the data analysis is very clear: having real usage indicators in hand, Our cars consume much more than the figures stated by the manufacturers. obtained in the laboratory.

From there, differences vary depending on fuel type or propulsion technology. Thus, in cars petrol real data shows consumption 20.1% exceed those approved, although in diesel it’s something insignificant 16.7%. That is, gasoline cars will spend on average 1-1.5 liters more than the official figure

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Plug-in hybrids spend…more than three times as much

Another of the main conclusions of the Commission’s study concerns Specific data on new plug-in hybrid vehicles. There was a suspicion that actual use this propulsion technology won’t be the most effective possible (that is, that its electrical capabilities will not be used)… and data has shown that this is indeed the case.

The Commission emphasized that consumption figures obtained from the vehicles themselves reflect what is actually They spend 318% more than approved. manufacturers (who, remember, take full advantage of electrical capabilities to create really low average consumption per 100 kilometers -from 1 to two liters, at most-).

According to the EC, petrol PHEV they spend on average 5.97 l/100 km compared to 1.76 advertised by manufacturers, and diesel PHEV (less on the market) indeed They are not 1.41 liters, but 5.83..

The European organization emphasizes, as an additional consequence, that real differential of pollutant emissions

between thermal cars And PHEV (remember that in Spain they are preferred to buy aid and other benefits associated with their eco-label) it’s not that wide as was taken for granted: if the average value for gasoline and diesel fuel 180.3 g/CO2What about plug-in hybrids? 139.5 (and not 39.5, as could be concluded from the manufacturers’ data).