Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency said this week that they'll change regulations to hopefully catch carmakers who cheat on emissions tests in the future.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told reporters at a Wall Street Journal forum Tuesday that the agency would be "upping its game" to stop automakers like Volkswagen from creating two dramatically different emissions cycles for its cars — a cleaner "testing mode" and a dirtier real-world mode. The agency said it would also crack down on automakers who lie about real-world fuel economy.
"Writing regulations takes time," EPA's director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality Chris Grundler told the Detroit News. "When you are working in the rapidly changing environment that we're in right now, we want to make sure that we are agile enough and flexible enough to change with those times."
The EPA has cracked down on five different automakers recently for misstating fuel economy figures. In addition to Ford and Hyundai, the agency has forced BMW to restate its mileage for its Mini Cooper Hardtop and Mercedes has been forced to lower its fuel economy figures for two of its cars.
Ironically, the EPA opposes a proposal that could have helped to uncover the malicious code in Volkswagens that helped those cars skirt the rules.
Of course, there may be some mileage in just testing the cars themselves, instead of relying on self-reporting automakers. But we're not smart like them.
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