Renault in bid to improve real-world emissions

Renault is reprogramming the software on its diesel vehicles in a bid to improve real-world emissions.

The announcement comes in the wake of damning evidence from consumer organisation Which? that claimed the brand’s vehicles emit up to nine times the legal limit for nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.

It also comes just a week after the newspaper Liberation published what it claimed were excerpts from a leaked French government report suggesting Renault had been cheating emissions tests for 25 years. However, Renault has said it “cannot confirm the veracity, completeness and reliability” of the report.