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Justice Department Makes It Easier to Bypass Pollution Controls on Pickups

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In principle we shouldn't worry so much about individual consumer actions, but...

By 2020, the most recent numbers available, the E.P.A. estimated that the emissions controls had been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks over the prior decade, or roughly 15 percent of all diesel trucks originally certified with those controls.

This seems to have become an commercial industry at scale, so is a genuine problem.

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How well can Electric vehicles(EVs) handle the heat — and the cold? AAA put them to the test

"Internal combustion engine vehicles also lose range in extreme cold weather," points out Ed Kim, the chief analyst with the research group AutoPacific, who was not involved in AAA's research. The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated a 10% to 30% drop in gas vehicle fuel economy in cold weather, depending on the type of trip. "This isn't a problem that's exclusive to EVs. This happens to basically any kind of vehicle when it gets really cold."