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Originally Posted by euromodder
As the test procedures are laid out, all companies engineer their vehicles to pass the mandated tests as good as they can.
When real-life driving conditions don't sort of match the test conditions, you can get severe discrepancies.
While many can match EPA numbers, most people here in Europe won't match their car's NEDC numbers.
That's not because they drive with even less concern that the Yanks or idle even more - quite on the contrary, with $8 gas and diesel ... - it's simply because the NEDC test is a far cry from reality.
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Seeing as how in recent technical articles I've read, some supercar and sports car makers have bragged about acing the urban part of the NEDC simply by making the battery of their hybrids just big enough.
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The EPA may be flawed, but the current EPA drive cycle is easy to beat. The problem now being,
how easy it is to beat varies widely, making it an uneven measuring stick.