Sentences with phrase «as diesel emissions»

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The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel - powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off - road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog - causing emissions by as much as 90 percent.

The Volkswagen emissions - cheating scandal has killed off diesel as an option for US consumers who aren't in the market for a big pickup truck.

A program dealing with San Francisco Bay that received $ 4.8 million last year would be eliminated, as would initiatives for reducing diesel emissions and beach water quality testing.

Today, as VW faces the pillory over fudging its diesel emissions compliance, the company doesn't seem to have learned very much.

As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.

The automaker admits that, since 2009, it outfitted several of its diesel - powered models — such as the Golf, Passat, Jetta, and Beetle — with «defeat devices» that would switch off emissions controls, and thereby boost performance, except when the vehicles were being put through environmental tests.

After 23 years selling Volkswagens at his dealership, Kalafer reckons he has never seen anything as bad as the German automaker's rigging of the emissions levels on its clean diesel vehicles.

The noxiousness of diesel has led to a paradoxical debate where far - from - benign gasoline emissions have gained the perverse position of being perceived as the lesser of two evils.

But as emissions standards get tougher and tougher here and in Europe, the diesel's future looks increasingly dismal.

Volkswagen admitted in late 2015 that it fitted as many as 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide with software that could cheat emissions tests.

In urban areas, emissions from consumer goods such as paint, cleaning supplies and personal care products now contribute as much to ozone and fine particulate matter in the atmosphere as do emissions from burning gasoline or diesel fuel.

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

But they have an outsized impact, contributing about as much to VOC emissions as gasoline and diesel do.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

If diesel vehicles account for 30 per cent of the PM10 emissions from all sources (as suggested by a recent report for the Department of the Environment), then the adviser's estimate makes some sense.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

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He notes that the FDA analyzed the environmental impact of POSILAC some 15 years ago (as it assessed its safety) and at that time concluded that it might actually increase greenhouse emissions slightly because of, among other factors, the diesel expended to transport it to farms.

These new trucks — which employ a diesel combustion engine along with a hydraulic high - pressure accumulator that stores energy captured during braking — get 35 percent better fuel economy and generate as much as 30 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions as compared to the non-hybrid diesel - powered vehicles they are replacing.

Highly turbocharged alcohol - fueled direct - injection spark - ignition (DISI) engines operated at a high compression ratio could be as or more efficient than diesel engines while also providing advantages of lower vehicle cost, lower emissions and higher power, according to a recent modeling study by Leslie Bromberg and Daniel Cohn at MIT.

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

The 3.0 - liter V - 6 rated at 240 hp and 369 lb - ft of torque is heralded by Audi «as the cleanest diesel in the world,» since it even meets tough California emissions standards.

At issue is software that made VW's turbocharged clean - diesel engines perform well enough to pass EPA emissions tests, as well as tests administered by other countries.

Diesels are a European thing, a misguided policy trying to lower CO2 emissions which is not a pollutant and instead causing massive increases of dangerous pollutants as NOX and particles.

From then on there were the also the 0.9, 1.0, 1.2 lt turbo engines by most carmakers but since the emissions tests are now going to be based on real life conditions and not lab conditions, even those displacements apart from the diesel ones will prove to pollute more than what is claimed and as such, especially in the non-turbo small petrol engines the only way to meet the emissions is to upsize in order also to maintain and improve performance.

Choosing this engine means having to mind your urea: in solution as diesel exhaust fluid, it reduces the turbodiesel's emissions, but the storage tank must be refilled every 4000 miles; the only bigger nuisance would be having a cow to milk twice a day.

Volkswagen will likely use the concept car's debut at CES to reveal its future plans for electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles as it seeks to distance itself from the specter of its diesel emissions scandal.

Even if you ignore the nightmare that Volkswagen is enduring as it tries to restore customer trust and confidence amidst a salacious corporate scandal over diesel emissions, the company faces massive challenges ahead.

VW had a chance to distinguish itself and the Passat as the only midsize sedan offering a diesel (the Mazda6 diesel never made it to the U.S.), but now the company's emissions deception will indeed have long - reaching consequences that put a lot of doubt into Volkswagen's future plans for the U.S. market.

(Just in time, as it turned out, for the few remaining diesel passenger cars on the market to no longer be able to satisfy emissions regulations — but that's another story).

The scandal made headlines once again this month as European investigators now believe that BMW, Daimler (Mercedes - Benz), and Volkswagen have been colluding on diesel technology since the 90s, including how to control diesel emissions.

After Friday's accusations from the EPA concerning Volkswagen's alleged violation of emissions regulations, Volkswagen has now issued a nationwide stop - sale for affected new 2015 and 2016 diesel models equipped with the 2.0 - liter TDI engine, as well as all certified pre-owned vehicles with the diesel four - cylinder.

With almost as much performance as the current SKYACTIV - G engine in the Miata, but with comparable emissions to a 1.5 diesel motor, the SKYACTIV - X engine offers longevity to the gasoline burning engines that us petrol heads cherish.

Specifically the 2008 - on (Euro - 4 emissions compliant) 2.2 diesel as fitted to Jaguar X-Type (and Mondeo, Transit, etc.) but I suspect the entire DuraTorq family are the same: I've seen EGR blanking...

That Ecomotive model might be the economy star but all the diesels offer seriously impressive consumption and emissions figures, with even the 181bhp 2.0 TDI able to muster an official 65.7 mpg in manual form, or 60.1 mpg as a DSG auto.

Volkswagen's long - derided goal of selling 800,000 cars and light trucks here before the end of this decade already is starting to feel quaint as the media assess the damage to future sales caused by the company's diesel emissions test - software scandal.

As an aside, the Japanese automaker still plans to import a diesel - powered midsize Mazda6 to the U.S. but only, according to a spokesman, when it is confident it «can both meet the necessary emissions standards and provide the level of driver involvement and enjoyment that is expected of a Mazda.»

A particulate filter is available as an option for the diesel units (this reduces about 99 % of the particle emissions, without the need for additives).

This, after all, is what you should expect from a turbocharged diesel engine, at least as a tradeoff for meeting emissions standards.

Three new categories for faults and failures will be introduced to the MOT test as well as tougher emissions tests for diesels

Stay tuned for more news on the expansion of Volkswagen's diesel emissions troubles as we learn more.

The Auris has low claimed CO2 emissions, too, and this means it stacks up well as a company car — the Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) bracket is lower than for the petrol or diesel model and compares well against rival hatchbacks and small estates.

As a number of regulatory bodies have launched investigations into certain automakers» use of auxiliary emissions control devices and millions of VW Automotive Group vehicles are under recall, the crisis has not made a significant dent in the sales of diesel cars in Europe, which still make up a large chunk of the entire vehicle population in Western and Eastern Europe.

The CEO is not advocating for diesels to stay forever — he sees an electric takeover in the relatively near future as unavoidable — but the step toward reducing emission levels still lies through improved diesel tech.

For those with a desire to keep their fuel bills low, the 20d model features an efficient turbocharged diesel engine that joins the BMW X3 as the only other SUV in the segment to offer such an engine (the Audi Q5 TDI is discontinued due to the VW emissions scandal).

Fairly standard features such as engine stop & start, and a gear shift indicator help with the basics, and Peugeot's uses a number of exhaust treatments to keep emissions down - including an selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and diesel particulate filter (DFP).

Market launch of the new MINI 5 door with four model variants (combined fuel consumption: 5.9 — 3.6 l / 100 km, combined CO2 emissions: 136 — 95 g / km); two petrol and two diesel engines of the new generation available with MINI TwinPower Turbo Technology; MINI Cooper 5 door with 100 kW / 136 hp 3 - cylinder petrol engine, MINI Cooper S 5 door with 141 kW / 192 hp 4 - cylinder petrol engine, MINI Cooper D 5 door with 3 - cylinder diesel engine (85 kW / 116 hp) and MINI Cooper SD 5 door featuring new 4 - cylinder diesel engine presented for the first time with an output of 125 kW / 170 hp; 6 - speed manual transmission as standard, 6 - speed Steptronic transmission or Steptronic sports transmission as an optional extra; extensive MINIMALISM technology including auto start / stop function and optional GREEN mode.

The lowest - polluting model in the range is actually the most powerful 128bhp diesel, with 96g / km, but our choice as the best all - rounder is the BlueHDi 100 version, which is cheaper and still very lively, yet claims CO2 emissions as low as 97g / km and fuel economy of 76.3 mpg.

Items such as high - level encryption in ECUs, tire - pressure monitors, integrated axle carrier / ring gears and complicated diesel emissions systems make it very difficult for the aftermarket to come to market with performance - oriented modifications.