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RSS FeedsEmissions tester says Trump could be good for their industry
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

23 march 2017 18:59:11

 
Emissions tester says Trump could be good for their industry
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


STOCKHOLM—The Swedish vehicle inspector whose technology identified emissions discrepancies in Volkswagen AG diesel engines sees Donald Trump as an opportunity-in-waiting.While it’s generally “not a good situation for us” when a government is not pro-environment, any decision by the U.S. president to roll back fuel-consumption rules put in place by his predecessor Barack Obama means vehicle manufacturers can “sell gas guzzlers for much longer time periods than previously anticipated,” said Lothar Geilen, who takes the helm at Molndal-based Opus Group AB next month.“The need for emissions-testing programs may actually increase as a result of that because it will mean there will be a higher polluting vehicle fleet over the next 10 years than originally planned,” the designated chief executive officer said in a March 15 interview.Read more: VW pleads guilty in emissions cheating scandalU.S. environment chief says CO2 not main cause of global warmingTrump vowed on the same day to reinstate a review of fuel economy and vehicle emissions by spending another year scrutinizing rules that call for companies to cut gasoline consumption to an average of more than 5.6 litres per 100 kilometres by 2025. The move countervailed the Obama administration’s assertion that the standards were affordable and effective.When announcing the decision to a crowd of workers in Ypsilanti, Mich., Trump told the CEOs of automakers including General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV that they needed to reciprocate by adding workers and building plants. Obama’s decision to preserve fuel economy rules “would have destroyed, or further destroyed, the auto industry,” he said at the time.Opus provides vehicle-emission inspection in the U.S., including remote-sensing services measuring large volumes of vehicles as they drive past on the street. Late in 2014, about a year before VW ...


 
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