Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. People living in parts of southern Europe, South Korea and southern Japan and China also experienced more than 15 days a year of ozone levels above 70 ppb. Trends in daily maximum ozone levels (known as 4MDA8) at urban and non-urban sites.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2012
Vision Industries Corporation, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Air Products and project partners were recently awarded $500,000 from the Texas Emission Reduction Program (TERP) partially to fund the building of the first public hydrogen fueling station in the state.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2012
Bromine also can remove ozone from the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere. Despite ozone’s beneficial role blocking harmful radiation in the stratosphere, ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant. Bromine then reacts with a gaseous form of mercury, turning it into a pollutant that falls to Earth’s surface.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 19, 2021
Up there, 10 to 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, ozone molecules absorb the sun’s ultraviolet light, protecting life far below. Even less is understood about the potential risks to people and the environment—could the particles deplete the ozone layer, for example, or significantly alter the weather? Not everyone agrees.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 27, 2015
The ACES results are expected to play an important role in future risk reviews of diesel engines by international and US agencies. We are already seeing a transition in America’s roads with over 30% of the trucks and buses in use today meeting these new standards and the trend is growing in Europe as well.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2015
ozone depletion potential (ODP). photochemical ozone creation potential. Volkswagen of America supports carbon reduction efforts in California and Texas, with projects geared towards forestry conservation and landfill gas capture. Click to enlarge. acidification potential.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 16, 2022
I’m Eliza Strickland, guest host for IEEE Spectrum ’s Fixing the Future podcast. Kelly, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future. At some point in the future, we might get good at it, and it might be quite a scaled activity. Kelly Wanser : Thank you, Eliza. And so the cost of that right now is really, really high.
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