An enormous engine, the height of three floors, growls loudly at a test centre in Copenhagen. Nearby a team of engineers supervise it from a control room resembling a ship's bridge. Usually such an engine would be propelling a large ship across the sea, but this one is being prepared to take part in a [...]
Despite various Government legislation changes, Diesel-Gate and finally Government insistence that the industry moves exclusively toward Electric Drive Trains, we have been unable to commercialise any VNA solution so far. Whilst we continue to monitor the large engine automotive sector to achieve a successful exit, we need another, more stable and predictable marketplace of similar size. Following the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) decision on maritime emissions legislation, (see links below) we, in [...]
Like the previous economy test, the new WLTP procedure is lab-based but far more representativeof real-world conditions https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/dieselgate-latest-will-volkswagen-ever-come-clean/and general dissatisfaction with the real-world economy figures of new cars compared with their official figures, a long-awaited new emissions test came into force on September 1st, 2018. The Worldwide harmonised Light-duty vehicles Test Procedure (abbreviated to WLTP) is designed [...]
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The industry may be entering the age of electrification and automated driving, but larger numbers of vehicles using electric motors and driving themselves won’t slow the growth of turbochargers, says Craig Balis, chief technology officer of Honeywell Transportation Systems. The way Balis sees it, turbochargers complement hybrids that use a gasoline [...]
Greenpeace and Which? welcome move by 10,000 Volkswagen owners for £3,000 in compensation as carmaker faces bill as high as £3.6bn Thousands of British motorists have launched a lawsuit against Volkswagen over the “dieselgate” emissions scandal, in a claim that could end up costing the carmaker billions of pounds. The group of 10,000 VW owners has filed a [...]
Volkswagen’s top executives told staff to cover up emissions cheating in the weeks before the scandal was exposed, the Federal Bureau of Investigation claimed yesterday. The executives ordered the “continued concealment” of the existence of a device that was built into diesel cars to cheat emissions tests, in the knowledge that US regulators were unaware [...]
even flight attendants were taken to hospital complaining of headaches caused by "odours in the cabin" on an American Airlines aircraft. The crew on flight 1896, which landed safely in Orlando on Monday night, were said to have been involved in what are known as fume events. Seven staff were hospitalised, but none of the [...]
British Airways flight attendants on board an Airbus A380 “superjumbo” vomited, became “spaced out” and had to use emergency oxygen after suspected “toxic fumes” were detected in the cabin during a long-haul flight, a leaked internal report reveals. At least one crew member became so ill that he curled up on the floor and put [...]
Anyone who dares to say anything even remotely critical about the financial revolution of crowdfunding risks being labelled as an unpatriotic, cynical envoy of the big banks. Celebrity investors from London’s Silicon Roundabout tech hub have been backed up by endless government ministers in asserting that “alternative finance” holds the key to the future of our economy. Using these [...]
A former British Airways flight attendant claims her health collapsed after she was “poisoned” by fumes while working on aircraft, as it emerged that four UK airlines are being sued by 74 cabin crew who say they were exposed to contaminated air. Trudie Dadd, 56, says she suffered “unbelievable fatigue”, memory and stomach problems, confusion, [...]
