Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2014
Several years ago, the government of Bangladesh took took various policies to convert the petroleum vehicles on road to run on compressed natural gas (CNG), which allows both air quality improvements and energy security benefits. Earlier post.) Congestion costs are still one-half of the health benefits of the CNG conversion policy.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 21, 2012
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and seven other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are committing to provide more than $175 billion of loans and grants for transport in developing countries over the next decade. Sustainable transport solutions are available. —ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Looking to make replacement filters more environmentally friendly and affordable, a team of engineering students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , in Dhaka, designed a carbon-based version with bamboo. A carbon-based particulate filter Diesel engines produce more polluting particulate matter than gas engines.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 30, 2014
T), fuel consumption (gasoline/diesel / compressed natural gas / liquefied petroleum gas), and engine type (front, rear, 2-stroke, 4-stroke, 150cc, 175cc, 200cc, 400cc). Inadequate availability of public transportation, underdeveloped transport & logistic infrastructure, low per capita income, increasing unemployment, etc.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
The average CNG-2S vehicle emitted nearly 3 orders of magnitude (700 times) more PM than the new CNG-4S test vehicle.regulators should also consider following the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, who banned use of two-stroke vehicles completely. —Reynolds et al. Reynolds, Andrew P.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 3, 2013
An analysis by a team in Bangladesh found large air quality and associated health benefits accruing to the residents of Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) as a result of the rapid conversion of the motor vehicle fleet to CNG. Impact pathway approach for modeling policy interventions in (a) air quality and (b) climate impacts.
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