Despite the pandemic, or perhaps because of it, the motorhome market is growing. But when it comes to exhaust gases, not all motorhomes comply with the legal limits. Two Fiat Ducato caravan models were found to have significantly increased pollutant emissions. Is there a threat of driving bans?
Electromagnetic radiation is found almost everywhere nowadays, or at least it is now very difficult to avoid it completely. The Swiss magazine K-Tipp wanted to know how much electrical radiation is emitted by cars. The result is surprising.
The number of people smoking has been decreasing for years, yet the number of adenocarcinoma lung cancers is increasing sharply. How can this be possible?
The agent Adblue ensures that nitrogen oxides are rendered harmless in a new diesel engine. But now this agent is in short supply, which can have devastating consequences for traffic and transport.
The first winter pollution period was announced in Paris yesterday. The Paris air authority Airparif had predicted on Tuesday that fine particulate matter (PM 10) concentrations would exceed the legal limit of 50 µg/m³ on Wednesday: The concentrations were actually between 55 and 70 µg/m³.
Eight defeat devices have been found in Mercedes-Benz's Euroclass 6 E-Class that disguise the true emissions of its cars.
Austria's current climate plan will not be enough to meet the EU targets by 2030 and thus reduce CO2 emissions by 7 percent. Now it is being discussed whether the rules of the environmental zones should be tightened. Then, for example, only trucks with a registration from 2020 would be allowed in Tyrol. But that will not be enough to combat air pollution. One solution would be to extend the rules to other vehicle classes such as passenger cars.
It was a shock for Leipzig taxi drivers and a harbinger of things to come for the taxi industry: in mid-October, the city of Leipzig announced the goal of converting the city's taxi fleet completely to electric or at least hybrid by 2025. The quick fix backfired, but it shows what we can expect in the near future.
Berlin's air has been sung about, but that was a long time ago. And back then it was far from dirty. But there is reason for hope. As has now been measured, it has never been so clean since measurements began in 1975. New limits, however, could prove to be a challenge.
When natural gas is extracted and processed, a lot of escaping gas is burnt. This releases more CO2 into the air than the C02 emissions produced by all cars in the EU.
