{"id":6459,"date":"2015-09-29T06:22:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T06:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2015-09-29T06:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T06:22:02","slug":"lies-damned-lies-and-vehicle-emissions-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/09\/29\/lies-damned-lies-and-vehicle-emissions-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, damned lies and vehicle emissions data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Germany when the extent of the VW emissions scandal finally became clear to us all. \u00a0Amid all that sausage, cake and beer, there was considerable reputational anxiety \u2013 and not just for car-making, though it does employ, one way or another, 14% of the country's workforce. \u00a0 The idea that <em>Made in Germany<\/em> might mean something quite different from now on, was clearly a concern.<\/p>\n<p>What was surprising was not that VW cheated the public, as all car-makers do that in relation to\u00a0their fuel efficiency data \u2013 something which the EU turns one of its many blind, corrupted eyes to. \u00a0What was really surprising was that VW thought that doing so in the USA was worth the risk given the Fed's willingness to go after transgressors \u2013 particularly (though not exclusively) foreign ones. \u00a0Last week's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/briefing\/21667918-systematic-fraud-worlds-biggest-carmaker-threatens-engulf-entire-industry-and\">Economist<\/a>\u00a0has a lengthy piece on the issues \u2013 <em>A mucky business<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Well,\u00a0as a VW driver, I'm inclined to believe the emissions date provided by the company about my car \u2013 because\u00a0it's an electric one, and when it's charged from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/03\/06\/a-20-20-20-vision-for-solar-pv\/\">Semington A<\/a>\u00a0solar array, it really\u00a0does produce no CO2 or\u00a0NOx \u2013 and no American regulator can show otherwise. \u00a0Evidence, I'd say, of a need to shift as fast as possible to carbon-free transport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Germany when the extent of the VW emissions scandal finally became clear to us all. \u00a0Amid all that sausage, cake and beer, there was considerable reputational anxiety \u2013 and not just for car-making, though it does employ,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}