A new, more realistic EU fuel economy test is set to be agreed around 2014 and introduced in 2020.
Few details are known yet, but the plan was revealed as part of the high-level Cars 21 summit held last week between car industry bosses and EU officials.
One of the messages from the summit was that “a new driving test cycle and test procedure for measuring fuel consumption and emissions should be developed that is more representative of real-world driving”.
The 2020 date is linked to the next stage of the fleet-average CO2 figure, which will drop to 95g/km by 2020.
