Germany, France to cooperate towards Euro 5 At a meeting on 27 February 2003, the German and French Environment Ministers agreed to cooperate to introduce further reductions of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from diesel engines. The ministers' aim is to introduce new set of Euro 5 standards for light-duty vehicles, effective by 2010, and to strengthen the already adopted Euro 5 (2008) standards for heavy-duty engines. A joint German-French intervention on the need for more stringent diesel regulations was made during the Environment Council meeting on March 4.
The German Minister Jürgen Trittin pointed out that technology exists to meet more stringent emission limits. He named six car manufacturers who offer, or will be offering later this year, cars fitted with diesel particulate filters (DPF). This group includes selected Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat and Lancia models featuring Peugeot filter-equipped engines, Renault with its new filter system (see "Technology" section below), and Toyota with the DPNR system. Thanks to the progress in diesel engine technology--and contrary to the original regulators' intention--many diesel cars will be able to meet the Euro 4 (2005) standard of 0.025 g/km PM without the use of particulate filters. The same is true in regards to the heavy-duty Euro 5 standard (2008), which can be met using low-PM engine calibration and urea-SCR to control NOx. The German Environment Ministry (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) developed a Euro 5 proposal, which is still under discussion with other German ministries and with the industry. The UBA proposal calls for Euro 5 limits of 0.0025 g/km PM and 0.08 g/km NOx. The heavy-duty Euro 5 limits should be revised down to 0.002/0.003 g/kWh PM (ESC/ETC test) and 1.0 g/kWh NOx (the adopted limits are 0.02/0.03 g PM and 2.0 g NOx). Particle number emission limits, not yet specified, should be introduced for both light- and heavy-duty engines. http://www.bmu.de/presse/2003/pm019.php ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/46VHAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
