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Volvo tells EU to clarify Euro-4 regs
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• by Colin Barnett 'Make up your minds" is Volvo's Tiessage to European legisla:ors, but the plea could have :ome from any engine builder, At he unveiling of a .220m expan3ion of its engine test plant at _undby, Sweden, Volvo pointed krt that as the Euro-4 emissions Jeadline approaches, the European Commission has yet to ;et the goalposts.
Although the probable emis;ion levels are known, they will lot be fixed until the end of this /ear. The industry is also awaitng details of the Euro-4 rules ;overning engine durability and In-board diagnostics.
The parameters for the tolt.rance of emissions are unde:ided too—and as yet no suittile metering equipment exists or many of the functions that sill need to be monitored.
As if that wasn't enough, here is no suitable portable quipment for enforcement. knd to complete the list of prob2111S facing Euro-4 engine iesigners, even in large parts of Vestern Europe fuel quality is clo low for the sophisticated !ngines needed for Euro-4 and eyond, In Eastern Europe the lecessary low-sulphur fuel is inlikely to be readily available iefore 2010.
Volvo is certainly geared up o meet the next wave of emis
sion regs: the new engine test house adds eight cells to the 30 already in use at Lund by, They include dedicated units for homologation and highaltitude testing, as well as one with the latest constant-volume sampling equipment required for US testing. Greenminded Volvo says much of the heat generated by testing is recovered to provide energy for the local community.