The WLTP test cycle used to measure vehicle efficiency in Europe is nowhere near as accurate as the EPA
Reviewing new cars in Europe, you start to notice how none of them ever seem to live up to their official Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure figures. If it’s an internal combustion vehicle, it can’t quite match the official efficiency numbers, while if it’s an electric vehicle, it always falls short of the advertised range, no matter how you drive.
The WLTP test cycle was introduced in 2017 and was presented as an improvement upon the New European Driving Cycle, which had last been updated twenty years prior, in 1997. The new results published by the EC will probably bring along another similar transition to a new testing standard, like the one from 2017, and it could be implemented in 2026.
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