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Exhaust Pollution Limits Frozen At Current Levels, But Electric Cars Targeted With New Restrictions

20 Dec 2023 | Abstracted from Euronews

"...the inclusion of harmful particulate matter from brakes and the abrasion of tyres reflects the fact that electric vehicles are by no means pollution free...the freeze of Euro 6 limits as an indication that the car lobby was 'back in control after a few years in the wilderness following Dieselgate'...But one significant change in the law...the introduction into Euro 7 of limits for particulate matter produced by brakes..."

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