Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

New research by scientists at King’s College London suggests that air pollution from London’s roads is improving overall but more work may be needed to tackle some sources of traffic pollution, which continue to breach limits in many parts of the city. No data was available to compare trends in ΔPM 2.5 between the two periods.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released , for public review, a concept paper to initiate discussion on the development of a Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy. Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) include methane, tropospheric ozone, black carbon, and fluorinated gases.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

A trio of recently published studies from a team of University of Toronto engineers has found that air pollution could be spreading up to three times farther than thought, contributing to varying levels of air quality across cities. We used to think that living near a major road meant that you lived near a lot of air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds. NASA Earth Observatory.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

While that report projected vessel activity, it did not explore the environmental impacts of increased shipping in terms of air emissions or the potential climate impacts from increases in short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon. —Azzara and Rutherford, ICCT Working Paper 2015-1. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2015

These nanostructures are similar to those present in dusts and vehicle exhausts collected in Paris, as well as to those previously observed in ambient air in the USA, in spider webs in India, and in ice cores, the researchers found. Carbon nanotubes and carbon nanoparticles (a) in vehicle exhaust and (b) inside a lung cell vacuole.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Issues covered in the briefing include emissions, air pollution, noise and renewable energy and the impact of transport on ecosystems and biodiversity. Since monitoring began in 2010, the annual average specific emissions from newly registered passenger cars has decreased by almost 15% as of 2015. in 2015 to 7.1% Air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

The first study to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of lifetime exposure to new technology diesel exhaust (NTDE)—i.e., exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2023

But said those same devices allowed the vehicles increased performance during regular use — increasing pollution and violating the Clean Air Act. Simply keeping an older vehicle around usually results in less pollution than supplanting it with a newer model that happens to be more efficient.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

Additionally, LNG engines are tuned to either emit low nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions—at the cost of higher methane emissions in some cases—or to incorporate NO x reduction technologies such as exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) or selective catalytic reduction (SCR). Olmer et al. —Pavlenko et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

With respect to the emissions updates, the OEMs must also provide proof that the changes do not negatively impact any other parameters relevant for type approval—such as pollutant and CO 2 emissions, fuel consumption, noise and engine power. Excessively high pollution affects air quality in many German cities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2017

The practice will help lower exhaust emissions, and is cheaper than the practice of running the TRUs on diesel fuel. In addition to fuel savings and reduced emissions, this project will also reduce noise and air pollution for our team and neighbors. Shorepower Technologies will install the power outlets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

The VW diesel scandal began on 18 September 2015. Stuart Grange works in Empa’s Air Pollution/Environmental Technology Laboratory and also at the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at the University of York. liters displacement (type code EA 189) contained illegal software designed to manipulate emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

From 2019, Mazda will begin introducing electric vehicles and other electric drive technologies in regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce air pollution. Earlier post.). Yamasaki, Y., Umahashi, S., Uesugi, Y., Yamasaki, Y., Umahashi, S., Uesugi, Y.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

The combination of the 4WD dynamometer, range of climatic conditions and state-of-the-art HORIBA emissions systems will allow the determination of exhaust pollutants over a range of climatic conditions, from temperatures of -20°C to 35°C.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The utility of structures prepared via this concept has been demonstrated in relation to exhaust clean-up from diesel emissions, oxidizing CO and NO simultaneously over hundreds of hours of operation. The approach enables the design of compositionally diverse confined oxide particles with superior stability and catalytic reactivity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In California, Big Blue Bus (BBB) will receive $870,000 from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee’s (MSRC) Near Zero Engine Incentive Program. In June 2015, Big Blue Bus was awarded $5.9 Big Blue Bus will use the grant approved by the MSRC partially to fund the purchase of 58 new Cummins-Westport 8.9L

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Due to their high oxygen concentration, they suppress pollutant formation in combustion. Further development of diesel and gasoline fuels now offers the chance of preventing the formation of hazardous exhaust gases directly at their origin, i.e. during combustion in the engine. Ford is currently leading a €3.5-million million (US$3.9-million)

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

for ships equipped with exhaust gas cleaning systems, or scrubbers, which reduce the polluting emissions before they are released into the atmosphere. In 2015, they carried 18 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). Fuel oil with a sulfur content of 3.5% CMA CGM, founded and led by Jacques R.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2017

The Clean Air Act requires vehicle manufacturers to demonstrate to EPA through a certification process that their products meet applicable federal emission standards to control air pollution. EGR shut-off for exhaust valve cleaning. The presence of an AECD is not necessarily a regulatory violation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Further work to ensure effective implementation of the 2020 global sulfur cap will continue in the Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR). Regulations governing sulfur oxide emissions from ships are included in Annex VI to the International Convention for the prevention of Pollution from ships (MARPOL Convention).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Since macrophages also play a key role in lung diseases such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), the new study is important for understanding the health risks of ship exhausts. Now, the team led by Professor Ralf Zimmermann has found in further studies that macrophages are also influenced by the exhaust gases.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The vehicles covered by the new NOV are the diesel versions of the 2014 VW Touareg, the 2015 Porsche Cayenne, and the 2016 Audi A6 Quattro, A7 Quattro, A8, A8L, and Q5. liter engines for MY 2009-2015 vehicles. This yields higher levels of NO x from the engine and reduced exhaust temperatures. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 25, 2024

Regulators in Germany have opened an investigation into alleged diesel exhaust rule circumvention on the part of BMW. It’s a situation reminiscent of the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal from 2015. possessed an illegal defeat device that allowed vehicles to pollute more under certain conditions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The locomotives will be delivered at the end of 2015 and the end of 2016. The three-axle H3 hybrid locomotive consumes up to 50% less fuel than conventional shunting locomotives and cuts pollutant emissions by up to 70%. The diesel generator meets the requirements of exhaust gas standard stage IIIB1.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology ( earlier post ) is at the core of the new Horizon2020 Steelanol project (2015-2018), which seeks to produce bioethanol via an innovative gas fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted by the steel industry. million (US$16.3-million) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

In 2015, Volkswagen was accused of deliberately installing exhaust cheating software that only turned on in laboratory conditions, and its products produced 40 times the emissions under real driving conditions than laboratory conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

During the period from 2010 to 2015, JRC—involved in the process from the beginning—tested the various versions of the new test cycle and test procedure on a number of vehicles that were also tested under NEDC conditions. On the other hand, for pollutants that are emitted also during high engine load conditions (ex.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The researchers assessed the gaseous, particulate, and genotoxic pollutants from two current technology gasoline direct injection vehicles when tested in their original configuration and with a catalyzed gasoline particulate filter (GPF). Their study is publishedin the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

Emissions from shipping due to the combustion of marine fuels with a high sulfur content contribute to air pollution in the form of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter, which harm human health and contribute to acidification. as from 1 January 2015. in this context the potential for reducing air pollution by ships.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

The campaign is part of a package of measures to improve air quality, cut harmful pollution and clean up the city ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The campaign also highlights the health benefits of reducing pollution levels to both prevent and alleviate illnesses such as asthma and heart and lung conditions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The NOV alleges that Volkswagen and Audi cars from model years 2009-2015 equipped with 2.0-liter, Affected diesel models include: Jetta (Model Years 2009 – 2015). Beetle (Model Years 2009 – 2015). Audi A3 (Model Years 2009 – 2015). Golf (Model Years 2009 – 2015). Passat (Model Years 2014-2015).

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JUNE 22, 2015

liter category International Engine of the Year 2015 earlier this month. —German journalist Thomas Imhof, a judge for the International Engine of the Year 2015. PSA Peugeot Citroën’s new 1.2-liter liter 3-cylinder Turbo PureTech engine ( earlier post ) was named best in the 1.0-liter liter to 1.4-liter

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

Over the course of the biofuel experiment, which began in September 2014 and ran through December 2015, R/V Robert Gordon Sproul conducted 39 regular oceanographic research and education missions, spanning 89 operational days at sea, covering more than 14,400 nautical miles, and involving 527 scientists and students.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Dearman began testing a Generation 1 transport refrigeration system on a truck in early 2015. The Dearman liquid air engine is an innovative heat engine that uses liquid air (or liquid nitrogen) as a “fuel” and emits cold air as exhaust. Earlier post.) We are another step closer to achieving that goal.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Theoretically, cars operating on higher ethanol blends than the design point could emit greater concentrations of pollutants in exhaust gas. In the cylinder where combustion takes place, the fuel evaporates before it is burned, and this evaporation helps cool off the air/fuel mixture and exhaust gas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Pasha’s terminal is adjacent to Wilmington, a community recognized by the state as disproportionately impacted by industrial pollution. million project is funded in part by a $14.5-million The commercial component followed.

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