![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, more than 38 million tests have been carried out under the program. The idea was to identify and repair cars and trucks that polluted excessively. Ontario’s Drive Clean program has been in place since 1999, when it was introduced by then-PC Premier Mike Harris’s government. (Of the 500 worst-performing make/model years in the data, 469, or 93%, were from 2001 or earlier.) Rising Drive Clean pass rates are usually linked to rising emission and fuel efficiency standards in cars made after the beginning of the 21st century. We are now working to move our province to a 100 renewable electricity system. “With the advancement in fuel technology, it’s rendered the program useless, really, and we’re calling for it to be scrapped.” The Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA), established in 1997, successfully led the campaign to phase out the use of dirty coal power in Ontario. “Drive Clean was a temporary program that has now outlived its usefulness,” Progressive Conservative environment critic Michael Harris told Global Toronto’s Sean O’Shea Tuesday. The data reveal stratospheric pass rates for newer-model cars – so much so it’s leading some to question why bother testing these vehicles at all. Global News obtained a trove of Drive Clean testing data from Ontario’s Environment Ministry under an access-to-information request. SUVs, minivans, compacts – pretty much everything from the class of 2005 did very well, except for Crown Victorias, mainstay of police vehicle fleets, at only 91.2% and Lincoln Town Cars, at a truly embarrassing 86.7% pass rate.įorty-two 2005 models that appear more than 100 times in the database, such as the 491 Infiniti G35Xs, had a 100% pass rate. Most of the Caravan owners got good news – nearly all of them, in fact. In aggregate, they paid more than half a million dollars – $518,875. So they made the time, all 14,825 of them, found a garage or dealership displaying the program’s cartoon logo of a car with a halo, and found something to do while a mechanic did the $35 test (since lowered to $30). In the last nine months of 2012, thousands of owners of 2005 Dodge Caravans in Ontario got an unwelcome surprise with the paperwork for their renewal sticker: Their vehicles were due for a Drive Clean emissions test, which had to be done before the plate renewal could be processed. Watch: Exclusive Globalnews.ca investigation finds many vehicles are near perfect. In the Portland Area, the vehicle testing fee is 25.This fee is due only after your vehicle receives a passing test result, and is issued a Certificate of Compliance. ![]()
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