Virtually all carmakers use particulate filters in their diesel cars to meet the most stringent emissions standards. These filters trap particulate matter left over from the combustion process that ...

Particle filters are standard in the basic fittings for cars. Construction machines, city buses and garbage trucks must now follow suit. This can be achieved effectively and inexpensively thanks to a ...

Volkswagen has yet to get modifications to reduce the emissions of TDI diesel cars with illegal "defeat device" software approved by U.S. regulators. But while it continues to wrestle with that ...

Gasoline particulate filters (GPFs), otherwise called Otto/petrol particulate filters, are increasingly finding their way into modern cars to curb particulate emissions. While they were introduced ...

Vehicles in the U.S. are set to release more than one septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) exhaust emissions particles that could relatively easily be avoided with the use of diesel and gas ...

The Volkswagen Group may be focused on going electric, but that doesn’t mean it’s abandoning internal combustion engines, especially if it can cut back on emissions. VW announced a new particulate ...

Daimler AG, the company that owns Mercedes-Benz, already announced that it would gradually introduce particulate filters for its gasoline engines. Now, Volkswagen has decided to follow Daimler in this ...

Mercedes-Benz says it will equip particulate filters not only on vehicles powered by diesel engines, but those that use gasoline as well. The move applies for now only to the European market, which ...

Diesel particulate filters help cleanse exhaust and give us cleaner air to breathe, but they cause frequent grief and expense. Diesel particulate filters are one of the major additions to exhaust ...