A surprisingly compelling subject
Dinner table, or social media, conversation may centre on arguments over which football team deserves to win the league, or whether the Mustang or Camaro is better, but the common feature of such polemics is that they represent simple and interesting questions. The topic of tyres, however, and if you dare raise it, may stun your companions into silence. Tyres are not simple and interesting. They are complex and boring – at least on the outside.
Our CEO & Founder, Nick Molden presented a webinar on the tyre emissions from the latest electric vehicles on 19th September 2023. The world is on a path to electrifying everything that moves, primarily driven by the desire to decarbonise. But no vehicle is zero emission, and the latest emissions regulations in Europe, the US and beyond are now starting to incorporate non-exhaust emissions.
Fear, uncertainty and doubt in an age of decarbonisation
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. This rhetorical triptych is increasingly used as an insult to describe interventions from anyone who deviates from the current environmental orthodoxy. When French philosopher René Descartes sat down in the seventeenth century Netherlands to write his Discourse on Method, he also faced FUD.
In our last newsletter we looked at the unethical challenge set by a high profile academic to see whether you would die if locked inside your garage with an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle running.
Emissions Analytics is thrilled to be featured in a groundbreaking news article by the University of Portsmouth. The article, titled "Study to Investigate Impact of Toxic Tyre Chemicals in UK Waters," sheds light on a crucial research endeavor that aims to understand the environmental consequences of tyre chemical pollutants.
Increasingly simplistic calls to #Stopburningstuff and #Stickyourselftothings have recently been accompanied by another call: that anyone who challenges the virtues of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) should shut themselves in their garage alongside their idling internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle for an hour, to see whether they emerge to tell the tale.
Friday 18 September 2015 saw Dieselgate break. This was the culmination of a growing dissonance between real-world nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and official values for cars and vans. The rupture was created by governments picking a technology, for the purposes of decarbonisation, where too much was taken on trust within a fragile governance system.
The AIR Alliance (Allow Independent Road-testing), the independent alliance set up to improve air quality by promoting independent, on-road vehicle emissions testing, welcomes the publication of the CEN workshop agreement CWA 17934, the real drive test method for collecting vehicle interior air quality data.
The term ‘environmental justice’ can often be used in a mushy, socialistic sense, but behind it is a deadly serious concept. Put broadly, it means that all parts of society should be treated equally under environmental law, or that everyone has the right to the same protection from pollution and other harm from emissions.
When an exploding star led to the observation of supernova SN 2003fg in 2003, it was nicknamed the ‘Champagne Supernova’ due to its unusual brightness, and its inexplicably great mass. Many supernovae eventually succumb to their own weight, leaving behind a black hole. Are we at this stage with battery electric vehicles (BEVs)?
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.
Emissions Analytics is pleased to welcome Daniel Marsh and Carl Desouza from Imperial College London as our guests to discuss the “Route map to Net Zero Construction.”
Emissions testing is usually preoccupied by testing for known, worrisome chemicals in the environment. Often they are in small amounts or concentrated at hotspots. Sophisticated equipment is deployed to find and measure them. We obsess with ever-tighter regulation of these pollutants we know about, even well beyond the point of diminishing environmental returns.
