What You Can Do to Reduce Pollution from Vehicles and Engines

Please make plans in advance to make the most of your travel and "travel chain". If your grocery store is near other places you need to visit, do everything now

To effectively reduce emissions, increase safety, save fuel costs, please follow the tips below.

Car Maintenance - Regularly adjust and use the recommended engine oil according to the manufacturer's maintenance schedule

When buying a new car, please look for a car with high energy efficiency, with less greenhouse gas emissions. These cars can help the environment while saving your fuel costs. Please follow the tips below.

1. Use the EPA's Green Vehicle Guide to learn more efficient and less polluting vehicles such as:

2. Using EPA fuel efficiency and environmental label, compare various models and find the best fuel economy and environmentally friendly car for your needs. This information is also available on the joint website of DOE and EPA.

Making cars, trucks and school buses unnecessarily idle can contaminate the air, waste fuel, or over-wear the engine. Modern cars do not need to "preheat" during the winter, so you do not need to turn on the engine before you are ready to drive.

Reduce diesel school bus idle can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and prevent children from contact with diesel exhaust to save fuel costs. The EPA's Clean School Bus Program contains information and resources to help reduce school bus idling in the community.

When shipping to your door or shopping online, consider asking all packages to be delivered with a minimum package in one shipment. On regular courier services, you can flexibly select by choosing longer windows so delivery trucks can optimize the route and avoid extra trips.

When searching for new technologies such as quiet and low pollution electric and battery-powered machinery, such as after mower and garden equipment, such a gas powered machine

If you are purchasing commercial grade landscaping machines, it can greatly reduce pollution and you can use advanced emission reduction technology, including catalyst and electronic fuel injection, there are many products

Measures to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide and other automotive pollutants including particulate matter may be inconsistent with the objective of improving fuel economy. The most important is the impact of this competition and slow improvement (GAO 2000, 16) which can prevent the use of diesel engines with diesel car fuel economy (more efficient than gasoline engines) in light vehicles. Emissions regulations that require special fuel prescriptions increase fuel costs and therefore reduce consumption

Today, automobile emissions are one of the main causes of environmental pollution. Petroleum fossil fuels used in automobiles are important resources for pollutants in the environment. The world is working to improve cars and engine systems to reduce emissions. Recently, research has been accelerating efforts to develop dedicated high efficiency natural gas fuel engines. This is due to the good ignition and physicochemical nature and the simplicity of natural gas, for example, (CNG) fuel is compressed natural gas molecules, which provides soot free complete combustion. Prospects are being researched for further reduction of pollutant emissions from engine systems due to strict emission regulations and increased demand for natural gas vehicles. The number of registered vehicles in Malaysia is 12 million, of which 51% use gasoline engines. The Malaysian government is trying to convert gasoline engines to natural gas engines

The amount of pollution generated by electric cars depends mainly on the source of electricity used for charging. This is less contamination than the internal combustion locomotive where they are deployed, irrespective of electric vehicles, making it impossible to determine whether they are the source of power supply. From an energy source dirty (eg coal or petroleum), an electric vehicle can generate more pollution than an internal combustion locomotive while using energy from clean electric water (hydropower) of an electric car, It will have a small contamination on it. Energy in most areas lies between these two extremes. The use of electric vehicles offers new possibilities for pollution control and management, which may outweigh some of its potential. We are not ready to use anywhere, but electric vehicles may be less contaminated than internal combustion engines.