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SUBMITTER: Grange SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304879 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grange Stuart K SK Farren Naomi J NJ Vaughan Adam R AR Davison Jack J Carslaw David C DC
Environmental science & technology letters 20200427 6
The Dieselgate scandal which broke in September 2015 demonstrated that vehicle manufacturers, such as the Volkswagen Group (VWG), engaged in software-based manipulation which led to vehicles passing laboratory-based emission testing limits but were far more polluting while being driven on roads. Using 23 000 on-road remote sensing measurements of light-duty Euro 5 diesel vehicles in the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018, VWG vehicles with the "Dieselgate-affected" EA189 engine demonstrated an ...[more]