This little book presents background information on the exhaust gas scandal, e.g. which pollutants are critical, how engine control units, exhaust gas recirculation and exhaust gas aftertreatment work, which driving cycles are used for testing, how manipulations on the test bench are possible and political environment this could happen unnoticed for a long time with different consequences in the EU and the USA. Measures are presented with which vehicles can also comply with real legal limits and how manipulations can be prevented legally and in which legal and politically in the future. Additional details are made accessible to the reader through references to literature.

Contents

• Chronicle
• Car emissions and health
• Exhaust gas cleaning and control units
• Measurement procedure and approval
• Legal information
• Clean vehicles in the future

Target Groups

• Lecturers and students of technical, legal and political studies

• Politicians, decision makers and interested laymen

The Author

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Borgeest worked at Robert Bosch GmbH in the Diesel Systems division until 2003. Since 2003 he has been head of the Center for Automotive Electronics and Internal Combustion Engines at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg.

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