By some distance, the research Emissions Analytics published in early 2020 claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions generated the most feedback of any subject we have tackled so far – feedback that was a mixture of surprise and scepticism
The septillion particle problem (literally)
That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 exhaust emissions particles that are due to be emitted in the United States that don’t need to be. How? A large majority of European and Chinese cars are now sold with tailpipe particle filters, known as gasoline particulate filters (GPFs) or diesel particulate filters (DPFs) in the industry, but this is not the case in the US.
The great public transport squeeze
Why battery durability matters for decarbonisation
Are cars sinful?
The even more hidden life of tyres...
The inevitability of hybridisation?
The rise of unregulated exhaust pollutants
What’s in a tyre?
Euro 8: Rethinking Vehicle Emissions Fundamentally
From performance to experience
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse
Letting the cat out of the bag: The great plug-in hybrid subsidy
In a recent newsletter, we set out Schrödinger’s Car, drawing a parallel with the famous Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment, where a cat in a box is both dead and alive until the box is opened.
Schrödinger’s Car
WEBINAR REPLAY: RDE Surveillance and Compliance
Emissions Analytics Wins Environmental Excellence in Transportation Award
What else is coming out of our tailpipes?
Tightening tailpipe regulations is a natural impulse in a post-Dieselgate world. However, we are in danger of over-regulating familiar, easy-to-measure emissions such as CO2 and NOx while ignoring a wide range of other, potentially harmful substances that can now be measured but have previously been ignored.