The New European Driving Cycle is a standardized testing protocol that simulates urban and extra-urban driving to evaluate fuel consumption, emissions, and electric vehicle range. It relies on highly idealized, flat-road acceleration profiles with the air conditioning turned off, resulting in highly optimistic figures. It has largely been replaced by the WLTP standard, which provides a more realistic estimate of real-world driving.
Heard on the job
The brochure claims 300 miles of range on the NEDC cycle, but you'll be lucky to get 220 in the real world.
Also heard as
- New European Driving Cycle