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EPA finalizes MY 2027 heavy-duty truck NOx standards; first step in Clean Trucks Plan

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The set of regulatory actions that make up the Clean Trucks Plan are as follows: Setting stronger nitrogen oxide (NO x ) standards for heavy duty trucks beginning in model year (MY) 2027 and tightening the Phase 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for MY 2027 and beyond.

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Final US mpg rules through 2031 go easy on gas trucks, SUVs

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The final rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), announced Friday by the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), set the prescribed improvement at 2% annually for passenger cars and 2% annually for light trucks for those model years. vehicle sales. ” 2024 Volkswagen ID.4

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Get H2 partners propose green hydrogen pipeline in Europe

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Most of the transport will take place via existing gas grid lines (shown in orange), which will be converted to hydrogen transport. By 2030, the network is to be extended to the Salzgitter steelworks and, if necessary, connected to other networks (shown in light blue).

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IAV develops new close-coupled diesel exhaust gas aftertreatment system for improved emissions reduction

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IAV has developed a particularly closed-coupled diesel exhaust gas aftertreatment (EAT) system. Under the EU6 standard, diesel engines are still allowed to emit up to 80 mg NO x /km milligrams of nitrogen oxides per kilometer—not only under the legal framework in the cycle but also in respect of increasingly tighter RDE requirements.

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NDPC study finds Bakken crude similar to other light sweet crudes, no greater rail transport risk

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Bakken crude is similar to other North American light, sweet crudes and does not pose a greater risk to transport by rail than other transportation fuels, according to a study recently completed by Turner, Mason & Company for the North Dakota Petroleum Council (NDPC). —Kari Cutting, vice president of the NDPC.

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Volkswagen introduces new generation of EU6 TDI diesels for light-duty vehicles; 2.0 TDI BiTurbo offers avg. 14% reduction in fuel consumption

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At the Vienna Motor Symposium, Jörn Kahrstedt, Head of Diesel Engine Development for the Volkswagen brand, presented the new EU6 TDI engine family for light-duty vehicles. TDI BiTurbo for light duty vehicles. The newly developed 2.0 The top-of-the-range engine features a newly developed dual-stage turbocharger layout. Click to enlarge.

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New Emissions Analytics study suggests pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions

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Since that study, which was transparently designed to quantify the worst-case tire emissions under legal driving, Emissions Analytics has been testing and analyzing tire wear emissions in more detail across a wider range of driving conditions, and has performed a detailed chemical analysis of hundreds of new tires.

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