Real driving emissions (RDE) field test
Channel: Johan Joubert
Date: 2021-02-17

The eighth in a series of ten field tests monitoring the Road-Rail Vehicle (RRV) using the Portable Emissions Measurement System (PEMS) on the standardised C-route. The SEMTECH DS+ PEMS unit from Sensors Inc is the first of its kind in (South) Africa. The complete data sets of the whole ensemble of field tests will be published shortly.

The vehicle is an Isuzu 850 FTR AMT (automatic) with a 7.8 litre, in-line six-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine. A real pleasure to drive and typical in an urban logistics setting. It is rated as a EURO 3 emissions vehicle. In this video you can see the real-time and accumulated emissions, along with the vehicle speed, engine revolutions and a reference map. In this ensemble of tests, the truck has no additional load on it. 

The first portion is recorded at normal speed, and from around 06:00 we speed things up. Best to watch the video in 1080p HD.

Music credit: BenSound, "Creative Minds".