The higher levels of pollution in Europe could be down to the number of EU countries that encouraged the use of diesel cars compared with North America, said Annette Pruss-Ustun, a co-author of the study.
hina will lower retail prices of gasoline and diesel due to falling international crude prices.
Volkswagen yesterday signed an agreement with China's Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co to explore joint development of electric cars, in the latest sign of how the German company is accelerating work in this area after the diesel emissions scandal.
Volkswagen marketed its diesel engine cars as being both more fuel efficient and better performing than those with regular gasoline engines.
Volkswagen has agreed to pay nearly $15 billion to settle claims stemming from its diesel emissions cheating scandal in what would be one of the largest consumer class-action settlements ever in the United States.
Oil refining is joining steel, coal and aluminium in the ranks of sectors hit by overcapacity in China, with increased production and a drop in truck transport forcing a wave of Chinese diesel sales into international markets.
The National Development and Reform Commission on last Tuesday announced a rise in the per-ton retail price of gasoline by 165 yuan and diesel by 160 yuan.
The FTC alleges that VW systemically deceived customers over seven years with an advertising campaign promoting "clean diesel" vehicles that were in reality much dirtier than government rules permitted.
The team is working towards producing a biofuel that uses human and animal excretion, with the hopes of replacing harmful gasoline, diesel and jet fuel that dominate the market.
But the collapse in crude oil prices has blunted biodiesel's edge against conventional diesel.
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Volkswagen has devised a new catalytic converter that could fix the majority of the cars in the US affected by the diesel emissions scandal, as details emerge of its attempts to satisfy regulators.
,190 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sued the German automaker Volkswagen in federal court Monday, saying that the company installed illegal devices in nearly 600,000 diesel engine systems to impair emissions controls, that way increasing harmful air pollution.
Chemistry professor Clare Grey and her team have overcome technical challenges in the development of lithium-air batteries — the only cells theoretically capable of giving electric cars the range of petrol and diesel vehicles without having to carry excessively bulky and heavy battery packs.
The report also said the car maker will begin making fixes in February to the first of the 482,000 diesel cars sold in the United States with the suspect software on its turbo-diesel engine.
Based on the evaluation, processed meat is classified as "carcinogenic to humans" - in the same category as tobacco, asbestos and diesel fumes- and red meat as "probably carcinogenic to humans.
" Sharma estimates a 4-year-old diesel engine could produce enough carbon to fill an HP cartridge within 60 minutes.
BEIJING — Volkswagen is recalling 1,950 diesel vehicles in China to correct engine software that the automaker has admitted cheats on emissions tests.
"The city's generators are always going down, so electricity is unreliable, and people use diesel fuel.
Questions about the wisdom of allowing automakers so much sway in how air pollution standards are enforced grew this week after the resignation of Volkswagen's chief executive, following the company's diesel emissions cheating scandal.
