大新聞! 美國EPA指控Chrysler排放造假 - 汽車

美國環保署指控Fiat Chrysler在他們旗下的柴油車上安裝未公開的引擎控制軟體

就像其他車廠一樣利用軟體作弊，嚴重違反了清淨空氣法(Clean Air Act)

EPA發了這聲明後FCAU股價馬上大跌
http://i.imgur.com/sMo3C1n.png

從最高11.32跌到最低9.14，不過目前回穩中

這次影響的車輛大約有10萬輛乘用車跟卡車

Chrysler比VW集團小的多，不像VW有雄厚的家底跟銷量可以支付巨額賠償

雖然Chrysler有出來嚴正否認

不過如果最後被證實是造假，不曉得要賠多少錢

原文也提到，想要降低柴油發動機的排放似乎除了造假外沒有別的辦法

柴油車的神話到此我想是完全破滅了

想要低速有高扭又省油就只能往油電或者是純電方向走了

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原文連結：

https://electrek.co/2017/01/12/epa-chrysler-cheating-emission-test/


原文內容：

EPA says Chrysler is latest automaker to cheat on emission tests, showing
that EVs are the best way forward

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued a notice of
violation to Fiat Chrysler (FCA) over alleged violations of the Clean Air
Act for installing and failing to disclose engine management software
that changed the emission results of their vehicles – just like several
other automakers over the past year.

While those ‘DieselGate’ scandals are disappointing for the light they
shine on what is an unscrupulous corporate culture of cheating, they also
clearly show that the best way to reduce emissions from vehicles is
electric propulsion and not increasingly more deceivingly efficient
diesel engines.

After Volkswagen and Mitsubishi, now the EPA is going after Chrysler over
a similar cheat which they claim affect over 100,000 vehicles, including
light-duty model year 2014, 2015 and 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge
Ram 1500 trucks with 3.0 liter diesel engines sold in the United States.

Cynthia Giles, Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement
and Compliance Assurance, commented on the news:

“Failing to disclose software that affects emissions in a vehicle’s
engine is a serious violation of the law, which can result in harmful
pollution in the air we breathe. We continue to investigate the nature
and impact of these devices. All automakers must play by the same rules,
and we will continue to hold companies accountable that gain an unfair
and illegal competitive advantage.”

FCA didn’t outright deny the claims, but it issued a press release
saying that they are “disappointed” by the notice of violation.

The automaker said that they had been working with the agency for months
to “explain its emissions control technology”, but apparently that was
unfruitful. Chrysler has even proposed software changed to its system –
implying that it needed changes:

FCA US has proposed a number of actions to address EPA’s concerns,
including developing extensive software changes to our emissions control
strategies that could be implemented in these vehicles immediately to
further improve emissions performance.

CARB Chair Mary D. Nichols said that Chrysler’s cheat was a “business
decision to skirt the rules”:

“Once again, a major automaker made the business decision to skirt the
rules and got caught. CARB and U.S. EPA made a commitment to enhanced
testing as the Volkswagen case developed, and this is a result of that
collaboration.”

Volkswagen’s case clearly showed that the only way to keep reducing
emission with diesel engines is to cheat the results and therefore, a new
technology needs to be implemented in order to truly reduce vehicle
emissions.

The German automaker has since taken a different approach and announced
its plan to build 2 to 3 million all-electric cars a year and unveil 30
new models by 2025.

Hopefully, FCA and its CEO Sergio Marchionne, who has been known to make
unpopular but frank comments about electric cars, including that electric
vehicles are only useful for compliance today and the market is otherwise
not important, will have a similar reaction and focus more on
electrification.

The automaker recently unveiled a new all-electric and autonomous minivan
concept with 250 miles of range and ultra-fast charging.

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