CATALYST THREAT HANGS OVER EUROPE

Individual European countries are proposing sweeping changes to auto emissions regulations. Switzerland has already applied standards equivalent to 1983 U.S. federal emissions regulations and Sweden has indicated an intention to do so. West Germany has recently amended its hard line on an across-the-board U.S.-spec emissions standard and will offer car buyers a choice of buying a car with U.S.-spec emissions equipment or a car without a catalytic converter designed according to the less stringent EEC-spec. This double standard was apparently made to appease other Common Market countries. Ford of Europe feels that most of the fuel savings gained in the last decade would be wiped out by requiring catalytic converters, and consider that a better way to go would be lean burn engines.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Chilton Company, Incorporated

  One Chilton Way
  Philadelphia, PA  United States  19089
• Authors:
  • Mullins, P J
• Publication Date: 1984-4

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 43-44
• Serial:
  • Automotive Industries
  • Volume: 164
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Randall Publishing Company
  • ISSN: 1099-4130
  • Serial URL: http://www.ai-online.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality management; Catalytic converters; Exhaust gases; Fuel consumption; Lean fuel mixtures
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Old TRIS Terms: Exhaust emission control; Lean fuel engine
• Subject Areas: Energy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391293
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 054
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM