Greenpeace savages Volkswagen's 'green image'

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Wednesday 29 June 2011


Greenpeace has attacked Volkswagen’s environmental credentials by claiming that the giant carmaker has stalled on fuel efficiency gains and is attempting to thwart EU plans for lowering emissions.

In a report titled 'The Dark Side of Volkswagen' Greenpeace complains that Europe's largest car manufacturer has deliberately restricted its most fuel efficient engines to a tiny minority of vehicles, and then drastically increased the price of those models.
Volkswagen is hardly alone in adopting that business policy, but the environmental group says the problem goes further. It claims that the company is lagging behind its rivals, citing a 7.8 percent drop in average emissions per kilometre compared to reductions of 18 percent and 14 percent for BMW and Toyota.

Even more damning from Greenpeace's perspective is Volkswagen's apparent opposition to laws which it believes will limit climate change.

"VW is at the heart of a group of companies lobbying against new laws which we need to cut CO2 emissions, reduce our oil use and protect places like the Arctic from climate change," the organisation claimed in a statement.

It has highlighted Volkswagen's objection to the targeted 30 percent drop in overall emissions from 1990 levels (the manufacturer supports a 20 percent reduction), as well as its criticisms of the EU's automotive emissions target of 95g/km CO2 by 2020.
The firm’s investment in plug-in hybrids and future EVs appears to have left Greenpeace unimpressed.

"The truth is that the Volkswagen Group has lagged behind its competitors for years. It only stepped up progress on CO2 reductions once a legal framework was put in place that forced it do so. It has shown no ability or willingness to voluntarily deliver the innovation or technology changes required.”

"Now Volkswagen is openly opposed to the agreed 2020 standard that would benefit motorists, the economy and the environment."

Greenpeace has launched a media campaign to publicise its assessment of Volkswagen’s record. It includes a parody of the manufacturer’s own Star Wars themed TV advert, and encourages viewers to “join the international rebellion”.

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