8 Mar 17
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PSA customers can check real fuel usage online

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PSA has launched a tool on the site of each of its three brands that allows drivers to check their real fuel use. The tool works for 58 different Peugeot, Citroën and DS models. 

Responding to Dieselgate, PSA has chosen total transparency regarding fuel use and CO2 emissions of its cars. Tests conducted by the NGO Transport & Environnement, a trusted third party, have generated reliable average real-time results for 58 PSA models, and those results have now been published on the PSA websites. 

The tests show, among other things, a 42% gap between fuel usage levels for six DS models as indicated by official tests and as revealed by the NGO's tests. For  25 Citroën and the 27 Peugeot models tested, that gap is closer to 45%. 

Using these tests as baseline, PSA created a simulation tool available on the websites for each of its three brands, allowing drivers to estimate their real-time fuel consumption. Upon entering details on their journey types and driving style, they get an indication of how much fuel such a trip would actually burn. The tool is already available in six markets: France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. More European markets will follow soon. 

Despite PSA's transparency operation, the French public prosecutor's office has not yet excluded opening a judicial investigation into the group's previous strategy for dealing with emissions data, along the lines of investigations opened against Renault and Volkswagen, writes Autoactu.com.

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Authored by: Frank Jacobs