Fuel efficiency isn't improving — it's actually getting worse

When compared to these jurisdictions, Australia's new passenger vehicles have significantly higher average CO2 emission rates, and thus fuel consumption, than other countries, but all show a decline.

Unfortunately, real-world emissions and fuel consumption deviate substantially — and increasingly — from laboratory tests that are used to produce the officially reported CO2 figures. This discrepancy is often referred to as"the gap". So in reality, the reduction in CO2 emission rates is not as large as official laboratory results suggest.

There are multiple reasons for this gap, such as the laboratory test protocol itself, and strategies used by car manufacturers — and allowed by the test — to achieveTER corrected the official Australian figures to reflect real world emissions. It found that carbon emission intensity stopped declining around 2014 and is now increasing.

This suggests that, for the first time, fuel efficiency is no longer improving and is actually getting worse.

Under the guise of climate policy the Left are coming for your car or air travel Cheap freedom of movement is a hallmark of Western capitalist society The Left despise that Emissions control policy is effectively a class war waged against ordinary Westerners classwar auspol

You could apply the same remark to the standard of journalism from the ABC.

Its because we spend so much time in stop/start grid lock any cars fuel efficiency decreases. Check out your own cars eff rating driving to work on weekday vs weekend! I wouldn't be surprised if our lack of road planning was lobbied by BIG Fossil just for this reason!

Buy an EV and save the planet form the clowns in Canberra.

Is it really an opinion piece if it's backed by research

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