Road transport is one of the greatest conundrums challenging the sustainability of our lifestyles today. Mobility is essential—for the individual, for commerce and for industry. Indeed, the increased prosperity of the past 40 years has been underpinned by road...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emissions have been of concern for many years due to potential carcinogenic effects, with several individual PAHs having been classified by IARC as either ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ or ‘possibly...
Report no. 2/05: To update understanding on emissions from road transport, CONCAWE is continuing to assess fuel effects on emissions from new engine/vehicle technologies as they approach the market. In this work, two advanced light-duty diesel vehicles and three...
The ‘Greenhouse gas emissions trading Directive’ (2003/87/EC), due to take effect in 2005, will require oil refineries to obtain permits for emitting CO2 and, more generally, greenhouse gases (GHG). The scheme will be based on allocated or purchased emission permits...
Although well researched in the past, there has been little recent work on fuel effects on driveability performance or evaporative emissions from European gasoline vehicles. Recently, the Biofuels Directive has stimulated interest in blending ethanol into...
