Automobile Environment Pollution 
Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2012
A new study by researchers from Stockholm University concludes that automobile tires may be a potential previously unknown source of carcinogenic dibenzopyrenes—a type of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)—to the environment. Automobile tire rubber in general consists of approximately 40?
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 24, 2010
Liu Shijin, deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, one of China’s top government think tanks, told a forum that the government should shift its guidance to automakers from mere pursuit of output capacity to environment-friendly and energy-saving targets.
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Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2021
The replacement of a diesel bus with an e-bus leads to an average reduction of the CO 2 emissions in the environment of 60.7 The e-transport does not use fuel while running and does not emit the polluting substances and harmful emissions during operation. —Maksim Liksutov, the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport. tons a year.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2022
The researchers cite studies that show during the lifetime of an automobile tire. about 30% of its tread erodes and enters the environment. million metric tons of tire wear particles flow into the environment each year in the United States. They also cite a recent study that estimated more than 1.5 Credit: John Dickens.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2023
Emissions from automobile exhaust systems have decreased in recent years due to the introduction of cleaner fuels and new control technologies on internal combustion engines, as well as increases in numbers of hybrid and electric vehicles. 10 ) of urban air, a fraction known to be enriched with non-tailpipe constituents.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
EPA found Clean Air Act violations at Tesla’s automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif. This settlement aligns with EPA’s National Compliance Initiative (NCI), Creating Cleaner Air for Communities by Reducing Excess Emissions of Harmful Pollutants. Under the settlement, Tesla agreed to pay a $275,000 penalty.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 6, 2014
These new compounds were not previously known to exist, and raise additional concerns about the health impacts of heavily-polluted urban air or dietary exposure. PAHs form naturally as the result of almost any type of combustion, from a wood stove to an automobile engine, cigarette or a coal-fired power plant.
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