The Real Urban Emissions (TRUE) Initiative conducted an emissions testing study in Warsaw in Fall 2020 to provide detailed information about the real-world emissions of the vehicle fleet and support the city’s efforts to address poor air quality. The study analyzed over 220,000 measurements from 147,777 unique vehicles collected using remote sensing technology.

Emission controls tampering in heavy-duty vehicles can have serious consequences for public health, warranting proactive regulatory action to eliminate such practices. This study provides a holistic assessment of the issues that motivate and facilitate tampering with the emission control systems of heavy-duty vehicles in Canada.

The study highlights the status quo of policies influencing and framing the electrification and provides recommendations for municipalities in Poland and Germany on how to effectively support the electrification of urban mobility. As such, the study supports the discussions of the Polish-German Platform on Electromobility, where both countries jointly work toward their shared ambition of driving necessary change.

This study analyzes the real-world emissions data collected by remote sensing in Seoul in 2019. The testing campaign was conducted at 11 sites, and the in-use emissions of more than 740,000 vehicles were measured. The sampled fleet was mostly comprised of light-duty passenger vehicles, including cars and vans.

The report advocates a vision for complete decarbonization of transport in Asia by mid-century.

This report presents a snapshot of commercially available EV battery technologies today as well as the state of R&D in EV battery technologies. It also provides recommendations on how to strengthen industry–academia collaboration to pro mote uptake of these technologies.

The work presented in this report helps to understand better the challenges that Latin American cities face in terms of transport decarbonisation and beyond, based on the analysis of the three case study cities of Bogota, Buenos Aires and Mexico City.

How do electric vehicles stack up against their conventional counterparts in terms of total cost of ownership for consumers? To answer this question, the study consulted the Car Cost Calculator of the German automobile club ADAC, a free online database that contains comprehensive cost data. The database covers all of the more than 8,000 models currently available in Germany. The analysis provides insight into the current cost competitiveness of electric vehicles in the German market. It also spotlight the effectiveness of current incentive measures and how they can be further developed to support the uptake of electric vehicles. The most important insight is that in many instances, electric vehicles are already a cost-competitive alternative.

The Real Urban Emissions (TRUE) Initiative analyzed the emissions and related health impacts of diesel truck emissions in New York City. The study uses real-world emissions measurements from the TRUE U.S. database and New York City traffic activity data to model nitrogen oxide (NOx) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions to determine areas of inequitable exposure to air pollution from diesel trucks.

The study analyze how the EU’s newly released “Fit for 55” policies can work in conjunction to generate new revenue streams for SAF and assist in meeting blending targets. It also assess the environmental integrity of overarching regulations and their ability to deliver on economy-wide decarbonization goals.