Seeing the Volkswagen‘s diesel scandal, the French government established an independent technical commission to verify whether regional car makers have not set up comparable gadgets in their vehicles. In January, scams detectives have actually inspected 3 of Renault’s sites to look if the French carmaker has used any sort of cheating gadgets, for the authorities to summon the company afterwards to give additional descriptions on why emissions from a few of its designs exceeded the limits. The outcomes of the query enforce Renault to recall over 15,000 of its small Captur crossovers– 110-horsepower diesel models– to change their pollution filtering systems that are turned on only in temperature levels in between 17 degrees and 35 degrees Celsius. The Diamond brand name likewise committed at that time to make voluntary emissions-system upgradations for about 700,000 cars from this summertime.
The French automaker recently revealed it developed those promised improvements aimed to decrease the nitrogen oxide emissions on its diesel EURO 6b models for real-world driving conditions and they will begin executing them from July. 2 modifications to the anti-pollution systems have been made: extension of the operating range of the exhaust gas recirculation systems and efficiency improvement of the NOx trap which allows, in addition to the EGR, the storage and processing of nitrogen oxide at regular periods.
The new Euro 6b diesels will consist of these functions as basic and the existing ones will progressively include the updates in production, starting from July 2016. From October, Renault stated that clients having currently taken delivery of a Euro 6b diesel can ask for these changes to be applied free of charge by means of a visit to their dealer.
