Podcast
Nick Molden
Podcast: Nick Molden joins Chris Caldwell, CEO ...

Nick Molden discusses with Chris Caldwell, CEO of United Renewables on his podcast Conversation on Climate.Nick and Chris discuss why electric vehicles may not be the future, the challenges and opportunities around adoption of electric vehicles.

Podcast: Nick Molden joins Chris Caldwell, CEO of United Renewables on his podcast Conversations on Climate change
Podcast
Nick Molden
Molden and Schmidt: the sustainable motoring ...

Nick Molden, and former Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt, have joined forces to confront the thorniest issues facing the industry. The podcast brings together two of the sector's most experienced independent analysts . Their podcast - Molden and Schmidt - is available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple and the Emissions Analytics website.

Molden and Schmidt: the sustainable motoring podcast

Tailpipe Emissions

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The most complex suicide note in history?

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The most complex suicide note in history?

The 1983 UK General Election saw the Labour Party manifesto dubbed the longest suicide note in history.  The current policy for decarbonising transport in the UK and Europe may be the most complex one.  For the policy to work, it is necessary simultaneously to switch the grid to green sources and fundamentally change the relationship between consumers and their cars, in order to balance that new grid.  Both are a major challenge, and if either fails, the whole policy fails.  If it does go off plan, we may well end up with undesirable cars being powered by a dirty grid, and an unresolved climate change problem.  Are industry and government locked in a suicide pact?

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Webinar: The effects of renewable fuels on combustion emissions

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Webinar: The effects of renewable fuels on combustion emissions

The webinar covering the latest results on the effect of renewable fuels on combustion emissions, which has been conducted together with the University of Oxford.  It will look at the chemical composition of renewable fuels, consider the impact that has on tailpipe emissions, and see how well Euro 7 may capture these effects. 

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The septillion particle problem (literally)

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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.

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The inevitability of hybridisation?

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The inevitability of hybridisation?

While the direction of vehicle powertrain policy and strategy is firmly oriented towards full battery electric vehicles (BEVs), the results of Emissions Analytics’ latest testing and lifecycle modelling suggests that hybridisation may prove to be the dominant outcome, whether intended or not.

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New Real Driving Emissions regulation increases pressure on annual inspection and maintenance testing system

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New Real Driving Emissions regulation increases pressure on annual inspection and maintenance testing system

The European Union Roadworthiness Directive came into force on 20 May 2018 and will play a role in enforcing type approval emissions limits, subtly but powerfully changing its role and previous focus on safety, to the benefit of air quality.

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Rethinking Scrappage For Addressing Vehicle Emissions

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Rethinking Scrappage For Addressing Vehicle Emissions

Scrappage schemes are controversial. In a 2011 academic paper* reviewing 26 studies assessing the outcomes of 18 scrappage schemes implemented around the world in 2008-11, the authors concluded that the emission effects of the schemes were ‘modest and occur within the short term.’ They also concluded that the cost-effectiveness of such schemes ‘is often quite poor.’

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Cutting pollution and improving public health

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Cutting pollution and improving public health

Pollution is a major contributor to chronic human sickness, not just environmental damage, according to the 2017 annual report of England’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, released on 2 March 2018: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officer-annual-report-2017-health-impacts-of-all-pollution-what-do-we-know. The report made 22 policy recommendations, many of which related to monitoring and ameliorating pollutant emissions.

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Can driving styles prove the smarter route to better fuel economy and emissions?

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Can driving styles prove the smarter route to better fuel economy and emissions?

The relevance of official fuel economy figures is still a perennial topic across the automotive industry, and one of the hardest to answer directly takes into account the human factor. Some claim that the official figures are in fact perfectly valid, if only the average driver wasn’t so lead-footed. But is there any truth in this train of thought?

 

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