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

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.) —ACES report.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

The VW diesel scandal began on 18 September 2015. Now—almost five years later—a study by the University of York and Empa shows that the retrofitting was successful from an environmental point of view. liters displacement (type code EA 189) contained illegal software designed to manipulate emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Their study is publishedin the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. 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). —Yang et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

BMEL’s central project-coordinating agency in the area of renewable resources, is funding a 3-year study of oxymethylene ethers (OME) as clean diesel fuels with €800,000 (US$894,000). Due to their high oxygen concentration, they suppress pollutant formation in combustion. When using OME, fuel may be considered an active substance.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

That study provided estimates of vessel traffic (numbers of vessels and transits) based on modeling of current vessel activity patterns, growth potential, and vessel projection scenarios, including diversion from other routes, and oil and gas development. Click to enlarge. ships diverting from prior routes to Arctic routes. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

A study by European researchers has found that ship emissions from the combustion of heavy fuel oil (HFO) and diesel fuel (DF) have adverse effects on pulmonary macrophages, from increased cell death to altered metabolic profile, depending upon the aerosol component. Their open access paper is published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Broadly, the study by Stephanie Searle, Francisco Posada Sanchez, Chris Malins, and John German concludes that (a) technical barriers do not prevent the use of higher blends of ethanol, and (b) slow uptake of blends such as E15 and E85 is due to other factors, including high cost, legal and warranty issues, and consumer awareness and acceptance.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

A study by a team from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has found that the collective cancer risk from exposure to seven toxic air contaminant (TACs) has declined 76% during the period from 1990 to 2012, and linked that result from air quality regulations targeting these TACs. However, in the study DPM is not measured directly.

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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

APRIL 4, 2011

used global composition-climate modelling to examine the integrated impacts of adopting stringent European on-road vehicle-emission standards for non-CO 2 pollutants in 2015 in many developing countries. To date, most studies have looked at the health, agricultural, or climate impacts of emissions in isolation. Shindell et al.

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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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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

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition, they will collaborate and innovate on features to reduce harmful exhaust emissions and discharges by enhancing the vessel’s scrubber and ballast treatment systems. Computational modelling and simulation that studies flow behavior of gas in scrubber tower.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Everyone solemnly agreed, again, to follow the science, which has shown in exhaustive detail that humanity will suffer from heat, fire, floods, and droughts if the world warms beyond 1.5° In 2015, the U.S. by spewing pollution into the air. The largest blue bar is the effect of pollution particles on clouds. [[The

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. DME engine in 2015. Volvo is currently in development with the DME engine that will enter production in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The study found that some of the CO 2 savings made during the use of low carbon vehicles is offset by increased emissions created during their production, and to a lesser extent, disposal. This work dispels the myth that low carbon vehicles simply displace emissions from the exhaust to other sources. tonnes CO 2 e). Hybrid vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2012

Fuel injection timing is the dominant factor affecting particle number (PN) emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, with the major factor causing high PN emissions being fuel liquid impingement on the piston bowl, according to a new study by a team from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For offsets to be credible, a ton of CO 2 -equivalent emissions from an offset project should equate to a ton reduced from a covered emission source, such as a smokestack or exhaust pipe. To be credible, as noted above, an offset should equate to an emission reduction from a direct emission source, such as a smokestack or exhaust pipe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A 2025 CO 2 target of an average 70 g/km for new cars in the EU could be met with very little electrification and with an average payback period of less than 4 years, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Peter Mock, Managing Director of ICCT Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

Their study is published in the journal Nature Catalysis. As hot exhaust passes through the mesh, the metal atoms on the surface catalyze reactions that break apart some noxious molecules into harmless byproducts. Machine learning also can identify interesting effects that are worthy of additional study. —Thomas Senftle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

At SAE World Congress 2015 earlier this year, Delphi’s Mark Sellnau and his colleagues presented the latest results from their work for a 1.8L At idle and low loads, rebreathing of hot exhaust gases provided stable compression ignition with very low engine-out NO x and PM emissions. Delphi GDCI. earlier post ). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The impetus for this change came from a study by the US Idaho National Lab [ 2 ]. This potential has been verified by many studies from the US National Laboratories.). by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. RGGI: A Case Study. INTRODUCTION.

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