Emissions advantages

Volvo Cars claims upgrades to its emissions laboratory have paid dividends in lower fuel consumption and reduced carbon dioxide emissions across its DRIVe range.

The emissions laboratory is used for testing throughout all stages of the vehicle development process.

When a design aspect such as the engine parameters has been optimised for reducing emissions, the result is verified by performing a test in the emissions laboratory and this process is repeated until optimal results are obtained.

For the DRIVe range, updated engine mapping and rolling resistance were tested and confirmed at the facility.

Laboratory technical manager Alexander Petrofski said: ‘Many parameters in the vehicle have great impact on CO2 emissions and this requires close attention to many of the systems that we normally do not connect to classic emissions testing.