Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2020

Researchers from the University of Liverpool, Queen Mary University, London and Trinity College Dublin have linked exposure to diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) to susceptibility to pneumococcal disease. Many of these fatalities have been linked to exposure to high levels of airborne particulates, such as diesel exhaust particles (DEPs).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2020

Vitesco Technologies, formerly (until September 2019) the Continental Powertrain Division, has won a major contract from an European vehicle manufacturer for the supply of innovative electric heating elements for diesel catalytic converters. In the Super Clean Electrified Diesel, the efficiency of exhaust gas aftertreatment rises to 97%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In the US, diesel freight trains emit 35 million metric tons of CO 2 annually and produce air pollution that leads to $6.5 Here we show that a 241-km range can be achieved using a single standard boxcar equipped with a 14-MWh battery and inverter, while consuming half the energy consumed by diesel trains. revenue-tonnes.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 11, 2020

A federal judge has ordered the stars of the Discovery Channel show Diesel Brothers to pay an $851,451 fine for air pollution, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. David "Heavy D" Sparks and David "Diesel Dave" Kiley, along with other defendants in the case, run a Utah-based shop that modifies diesel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2019

Researchers have identified two strains of diesel-degrading bacteria in pristine Antarctic soil and their optimal working conditions. Pollution from petroleum hydrocarbons such as diesel, which is widely used for heating, transportation and power generation poses a threat to wildlife in Antarctica.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

A research consortium led by Ford Research and Innovation Center Aachen is currently investigating the technical conditions under which diesel vehicles can run on dimethyl ether (DME) as an alternative fuel. With dynamic blending, even flex-fuel operation (diesel or DME/diesel) would be possible while retaining the original diesel system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Less traffic on the roads during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK led to a reduction in air pollution but may have caused potentially damaging surface ozone levels to rise, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of York. These results are a cautionary tale. —Professor Lee.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

The California Energy Commission approved nearly $70 million in funding to replace more than 200 old diesel school buses with all-electric buses that will reduce school children’s exposure to harmful emissions and help the state reach its climate and air quality goals. School buses are by far the safest way for kids to get to school.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Those living in polluted cities are more at risk from COVID-19, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) warned today. Air pollution can cause hypertension, diabetes and respiratory diseases, conditions that doctors are starting to link to higher mortality rates for COVID-19. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) is an EPHA member.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2019

for emissions-related violations affecting nearly 2,000 on-road and off-road diesel engines. These illegal modifications may increase emissions of toxic and smog-forming pollution both on and off our roads and highways. million will be paid to the Air Pollution Control Fund to support air pollution research and education.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2020

Metal particles from the abrasion of brake pads (brake abrasion dust, BAD) may cause inflammation and reduce the ability of immune cells to kill bacteria, similarly to particles derived from diesel exhaust particles (DEP), according to a new study led by researchers at King’s College London. traffic pollution.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2018

million in Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grants to public and private partners in California. The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $9.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is helping a client develop a simple post-refinery treatment process that reduces exhaust emissions from diesel engines by overcoming the soot/nitrogen oxides (NO x ) reduction trade-off that has plagued engine researchers for decades.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

x 10 11 #/km for diesels. x 10 11 #/km for the whole size range should also be compared to the maximum number permissible from the tailpipe of 6.0 x 10 11 #/km at a 23 nm cut-off, and the actual real-world values from Emissions Analytics’ EQUA test programme of 0.9 x 10 11 #/km for gasoline vehicles and 0.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2020

The California Air Resources Board approved a new regulation designed to reduce pollution further from ocean-going vessels while docked at California’s busiest ports. The rule builds on progress achieved by the At-Berth Regulation adopted in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas. billion liters (18.8

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The companies failed to install particulate filters on some of their heavy-duty diesel trucks and failed to verify that trucks they hired for use in California complied with the state rule. Heavy-duty trucks can emit drastically higher levels of pollution when not equipped with required emissions controls. Schneider National, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2023

The experimental results showed that DME operation retains the performance on the base diesel engine (338 kW peak power) while significantly reducing the engine-out emissions. In addition, the combustion is very complete and very low levels of regulated and non-regulated pollutant emissions can be detected (e.g. Soltic et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2020

A new UCLA study in zebrafish identified the process by which air pollution can damage brain cells, potentially contributing to Parkinson’s disease. Epidemiological studies have supported an association between long-term exposure to air pollutants and disease risk.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2019

Infants born to women exposed to high levels of air pollution in the week before delivery are more likely to be admitted to a newborn intensive care unit (NICU), suggests an analysis by researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Short-term exposure to most types of air pollutants may increase the risk for NICU admission.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

liter diesel engine for use in FCA US’ Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ram 1500 vehicles that would be sold in the United States. liter diesel program’s goals, timing, and marketing strategy. According to the company’s admissions and court documents, beginning at least as early as 2010, FCA US developed a new 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2020

The California Air Resources Board has approved a multi-pronged regulation that will significantly reduce NO x emissions from heavy-duty diesel trucks. This regulation ensures that conventional diesel trucks will run as cleanly as possible at every point in their duty cycle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

Creating a fuel cell engine for these trains would potentially eliminate their emissions and provide a much-needed reduction in air pollution from the railways that serve California’s warehouses and ports. SoCalGas is committing another $500,000 to advance the research.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

This option is an addition to the range of technologies and sustainable fuels that Irizar is currently offering, including electric buses, diesel coaches, biofuel, natural gas, HVO, hybrid, biofuel and B100. Beyond providing greater thermal performance than diesel, noise levels are also reduced by 50%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Bombardier Transportation (now part of Alstom) introduced a variety of green innovations to reduce CO 2 emissions and pollution in the railway sector. The effort is part of France’s strategy to eventually phase diesel power out of its national rail fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

A new study suggests that significant early childhood exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is associated with structural changes in the brain at the age of 12. 2020) “Reduced gray matter volume and cortical thickness associated with traffic-related air pollution in a longitudinally studied pediatric cohort.” 0228092.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The 2022 amendments will require a variety of actions designed to reduce the pollution these units produce, and accelerate their transition to zero-emission technologies. The new requirements include the transition of diesel-powered truck TRUs to zero?emission; road engines.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Among pollutants that are less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5 ), airborne sulfate is one of the most common components of hazy air pollution formed atmospherically via the oxidation of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ). Dense, hazy fog episodes characterized by relatively high humidity, low visibility and extremely high PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Tula Technology is presenting its diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) technology ( earlier post ) at the 4 th Future Diesel Powertrain Summit China 2020 on 24-25 September 2020 in Shanghai, China. This allows for more efficient conversion of pollutants in the catalyst and reduced NO x , at no additional after treatment hardware cost.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The California Air Resources Board settled eight diesel cases totaling more than $130,000 for violations of the Truck and Bus Regulation in the Imperial Valley. The Truck and Bus Regulation protects public health by reducing emissions of diesel particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and other pollutants from diesel-fueled vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Concentrations of the harmful NO 2 pollutant across 30 major European cities could be reduced by up to 40% with the correct traffic policy measures, according to EU Joint Research Center (JRC) scientists. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Freight transportation is a pillar of the US national economy, but while long-haul trucks account for less than 6% of the vehicle miles traveled over US highways, they account for about 40% of the emissions of air polluting particulate matter and about 55% of nitrogen oxides, the precursor to ozone in the atmosphere, the study said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2020

The proposed regulation is intended to ensure reductions in smog-forming NO x and protect communities most impacted by air pollution. On-road heavy-duty vehicles are an essential part of the state’s economy. Source: CARB.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2021

These first two trucks will replace around 65,000 diesel-fueled road miles, removing 87.4 By demonstrating that electric HGV transportation is commercially viable, this service will contribute to encouraging wider investment in technology and innovation that will support the haulage sector’s efforts to reduce emissions and air pollution.

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MARCH 25, 2025

Big trucks for shipping, using diesel engines, generate huge amounts of harmful air pollution. News about electric vehicles tends to focus on personal transportation: cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, ebikes, electric motorcycles, etc. There are other electric vehicles, though, and great reasons they should be getting attention.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

The city of Moscow, Russia is halting the purchase of diesel buses for its passenger transport fleet. Starting this year, by the decision of the Mayor of Moscow, we will not buy diesel buses, except for transportation in a special mode. Replacing one diesel bus with an electric bus reduces CO 2 emissions into the environment by 60.7

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

According to Agah, a renowned researcher in chip-scale gas chromatography and Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation Faculty Fellow, the development of effective strategies for reducing occupational exposure to pollutants requires accurate, time-resolved measurement of exposure.

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