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The Evolution of Zero Emission Vehicles

When I first started working in this field back in the 70s, we had a mantra of performance based regulations and never putting your thumb on the scale of technology. We can put add on technology at the tailpipe of the car like the catalytic converter,. And we can clean up the fuel and make the gasoline formula cleaner so that you get less emissions out of the tailpipe. But at the end of the day, it's still combustion. The move towards zero tailpipe emission vehicles really took a turn when we began to realize that it wasn't just the nitrogen oxides and the volatile organic compounds but particulates as well.

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