Articles | Volume 22, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3891-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3891-2022
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24 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2022

Assessing vehicle fuel efficiency using a dense network of CO2 observations

Helen L. Fitzmaurice, Alexander J. Turner, Jinsol Kim, Katherine Chan, Erin R. Delaria, Catherine Newman, Paul Wooldridge, and Ronald C. Cohen

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On-road emissions are thought to vary widely from existing predictions, as the effects of the age of the vehicle fleet, the performance of emission control systems, and variations in speed are difficult to assess under ambient driving conditions. We present an observational approach to characterize on-road emissions and show that the method is consistent with other approaches to within ~ 3 %.
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