Anna Krajinska – Transport & Environment

Return of the ‘big bad’ car industry as auto lobbyists water down pollution standards

Sam Hargreaves — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:13:18 +0000

Seven years ago the Dieselgate scandal rocked the auto industry. Millions of customers were duped into buying grossly polluting cars. Trust in carmakers was destroyed. In public at least, it brought about a complete volte face as carmakers sought to clean up their image and win back consumer trust. Herbert Diess, the then new pro-EV CEO of Volkswagen would become the figurehead of a new...

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A million dirty cars a month: the cost of delaying air pollution rules

Eoin Bannon — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:54:25 +0000

“Fool me once, shame on you,” the EU Commission can say to car manufacturers. “But fool me twice, shame on me.” It’s only been six years since EU regulators were found to be presiding over a system that allowed the car industry to put fat profits before public health. Yet they’re already about to leave citizens exposed to toxic levels of air pollution again. The ‘shame’ this time is over the...

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Electric vehicles are far better than combustion engine cars when it comes to air pollution. Here’s why

Sam Hargreaves — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:48:07 +0000

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Electric vehicles are far better than combustion engine cars when it comes to air pollution. Here’s why

fbh-import — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:00:38 +0000

Toxic emissions from tailpipes of diesel and petrol cars have caused air pollution problems in European towns and cities for decades and cause tens of thousands of unnecessary, premature deaths each year. Now, as sales of zero emission electric cars surge across Europe and the end of the internal combustion engine is in sight, the industry is clutching at straws to keep the polluting engine alive. One claim, covered in a number of newspapers, is that electric cars will make air quality worse due to particle emissions from non-exhaust sources, such as tyres and brakes. This is wrong.Here’s why.