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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Vows to Reduce Emissions Ahead of European Deadline

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has issued a press release in which it reaffirms the fact that it has not used defeat devices on its engines, and that all its powertrains are compliant with applicable emissions regulations.
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Since the public’s attention is shifting towards the so-called “real world driving emissions,” the Italian-American company has promised to test all of its future models in this proposed cycle and to publish the results. The company will do this ahead of the term requested by the European Union’s legislation.

Furthermore, FCA has decided to update its Euro 6 calibrations with new data sets to improve emission performance in real driving conditions. The corporation is doing this voluntarily, free of charge for the customers, and without a mandate or a request by any regulatory authority, unlike VW and the now-famed Dieselgate scandal.

Starting April 2016, owners of FCA-built vehicles sold on or after that date will be offered improvements on their Euro 6 engines. These improvements are voluntary and do not constitute a recall campaign since there’s nothing wrong with those engines in the first place.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles simply figured out a way to reduce real driving emissions of those cars and will offer a solution to their owners. The company has also pledged to continuously improve its diesel engines’ emission performance.

The corporation wants to expand the application of the Active Selective Catalytic Reduction technology to other diesel engine families in its range starting the second quarter of next year. The change comes significantly sooner than the applicable legislation requires.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is not the first carmaker to announce it will voluntarily publish real world driving emissions and consumption figures for its vehicles. Opel, the German company owned by General Motors, has promised to do the same with its new cars. These decisions are acts of transparency from carmakers, who feel that customers are dissatisfied with current emissions and fuel consumption testing procedures.

As some of you may remember, those tests are done in a laboratory, and are hard or impossible to match in real world driving because of loopholes existent in the NEDC testing procedure.
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About the author: Sebastian Toma
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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