Engineers working to tackle carcinogenic pollution from cars have developed chea...
DUEBENDORF, Switzerland - Engineers working to tackle carcinogenic pollution from cars have developed cheap and simple devices to test the effectiveness of particle filters, which could help take toxic vehicles off roads without resorting to blanket bans.
Regulators also need to find inexpensive ways to measure real-world emissions without installing costly equipment. The new measuring devices will start rolling out in Europe this year for mandatory tests and could help improve diesel engines’ reputation after scandals over carmakers’ use of illegal defeat devices to manipulate exhaust emission tests.However particulates also kill 5 million people a year globally, Andreas Mayer, director of engineering group VERT’s scientific committee, told Reuters on the sidelines of the group’s annual meeting.
The harmful impact of NOx emissions and fine particulate matter were for years ignored by European regulators until Volkswagen was caught masking excessive pollution levels in cars it sold in the United States.
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