EU Set for Fight Over New Car-Emission Tests After VW Deception
- Governments resist commissioner's plan for tougher regime
- Proposal said to face defeat in vote due on Wednesday
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The European Union’s industrial-policy chief faces a clash with EU governments over car pollution this week as the political stakes from Volkswagen AG’s cheating rise.
Elzbieta Bienkowska, the European commissioner for industrial policy, wants to give automakers less leeway than do many EU nations in a move to a tougher system of emission tests, according to two people familiar with the matter. The new inspection regime, penciled in for September 2017, would gauge emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides under real driving conditions because of evidence that discharges on the road are 400 percent to 500 percent higher than in laboratories.