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OctaFuel slams AA over comments that fuel saving devices don’t work
2 Sep 2008
OctaFuel New Zealand, suppliers and installers of retrofitted hybrid fuel cells, and pioneers of retrofitted regenerative braking and heat to energy recovery modules in motorcars, believes the AA has abused its position as a trusted source of credible information by suggesting to the general public that all fuel saving devices don’t work, when the truth is they do not undertake independent testing of fuel saving devices.
Says Michael Fresnel, co-founder of OctaFuel: “When OctaFuel makes public statements, we have to ensure they are entirely factual, because we know we’ll be held to account, but it seems that when a big entity like the AA makes statements, their statements are taken as gospel, because people trust the AA.”
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