CVRAS approval removed after inaccuracies in data but the firm gurantees that it will keep all promises
GreenUrban Technologies has assured buyers of its Euro 6 exhaust retrofit kits that it is working with the Energy Saving Trust (EST) to regain accreditation under the Clean Vehicle Retrofit Accreditation Scheme (CVRAS).
GreenUrban’s CVRAS approval for its ecoNOxt system was withdrawn by EST after inaccuracies in test data were identified. Its approved company status was also revoked.
MD Nigel Standley says that steps are in place to ensure that both are regained quickly and before London’s ULEZ comes in to force on 8 April 2019.
GreenUrban has supplied 132 such kits with its Early Adopter Guarantee to a mixture of coach and bus operators, where the equipment was fitted in advance of certification on the basis that it would be achieved subsequently. Without CVRAS accreditation, that is not possible.
The company is still on course to achieve certification of every system once accreditation has been regained, adds Mr Standley. “We sold those kits with a guarantee that they were built to Euro 6 specifications and we stand by all of those operators who purchased them,” he says.
GreenUrban accepts that revocation of CVRAS and EST approval was caused by “a serious lack of proper procedure governing the preparation and sign-off of accurate test data submitted to EST. While not widespread, such reporting is nonetheless unacceptable, and we apologise unreservedly to our customers and to EST for the complications that this has caused.”
Mr Standley adds that GreenUrban has made “significant organisational changes” and that it has implemented a programme of preventative and correctional actions. He says that telematics data fitted to ecoNOxt systems that are in service shows that they all comply with Euro 6 limits.
“We will not walk away from any buyer. We will ensure that we fulfil our Early Adopter Guarantee commitments and obligations to all of our customers by the necessary deadlines,” he says.
