Car manufacturers despair of the new emission regulations: BMW also stops production of X5 and X6 gasoline

03/23/2018

Car manufacturers desperate for new emission regulations BMW also stops production of X5 and X6 petrol engines

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BMW X5: From late May to early 2019 no longer available with gasoline engine

For a year, the BMW 7 Series is in Europe not available as gasoline engine – This sales convention for Munich’s flagship shocked fans of the premium manufacturer. Other BMW models will not be available for months with gasoline engines,reports the Automobilwoche now, At the end of May, BMW will stop producing the petrol variants of the X5 and X6 and the 6 Series petrol engine in Europe, with the exception of the GT version. The SUVs will be available again in 2019 with gasoline engine. The petrol all-wheel drive version 225 iX Active Tourer also temporarily leaves the program – as well as the four-wheel drive versions of the X1 and X2 with gasoline engine.

The reason for this: BMW prepares its vehicles according to own data for new consumption and emission measurements. Not only BMW Show stock market chart is currently groaning under the new rules. Affected is the entire industry. The problems about which, for example, too Volkswagen Show stock market chart are apparently an indirect consequence of exhaust scandal, The legislature in Brussels suddenly puts more pressure on the manufacturers, after they were pampered for decades and built millions of cars with manipulated engines.

Now, the industry must quickly prepare all models for the new measuring cycle WLTP, which is intended to represent fuel consumption more realistically. To do this, all models once again have to complete a complex measuring procedure. Irrespective of this, the manufacturers are simultaneously obliged to equip many gasoline engines with a particulate filter. Only then will they be able to pass new, more stringent particulate matter measurements under real driving conditions (RDE).

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“Our test stands are working at full capacity and working in three shifts,” a BMW spokesman told manager-magazin.de. It was also “complex” to accommodate particle filters “in the entire portfolio”.

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Therefore, vehicles would first be brought up to date, which the company sells in large quantities. Delays are only affected models with lower sales figures. These include the on-ice petrol variants. According to BMW, they have reached the end of their lifecycle and are only being sold in relatively small numbers. Since the effort of conversion to particle filter would be too large, argue the Bayern. Bottom line, BMW will not sell significantly less cars, the manufacturer hopes as customers would switch to alternative vehicles of the manufacturer.

The measures are still painful. So takes BMW and the sports icon M3 temporarily out of the program. It would be too costly to convert the engine specifically for the installation of a particulate filter. Only after the new 3 Series from the fourth quarter of 2018 goes to the start, industry experts expect a low-emission M3.

Even with the 7 Series is the temporary off for gasoline is not trivial. Although only about 2000 of the affected vehicles were sold throughout Europe last year, according to BMW. However, this type of drive is currently in increasing demand because drivers fear driving bans on diesel cars. In Germany, the authorities have recently even more petrol 7er as a diesel.

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