Roadmap for Cleaner Fuels and Cleaner Vehicles

I recently came across an interesting document titled “A Road Map for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles in Asia”. This document was prepared as part of an air quality programme supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The roadmap was meant to provide decision makers in Asia with up-to-date information on how to clean up fuels and encourage clean vehicles. The roadmap discusses the interaction between fuels and vehicle technologies and the approaches that Asian countries can take to produce cleaner fuels and vehicles.

I have extracted the key conclusions drawn from that document. I hope you find them interesting.

(i) Clean fuels are essential. Pollution control experts worldwide have come to realize over the past 30 years that cleaner fuels are a critical component of an effective clean air strategy. In recent years, this understanding of the critical role of fuels deepened and spread to most regions of the world. Fuel quality is now seen as not only essential for directly eliminating or reducing pollutants such as lead, but also as a precondition for introducing many important pollution control technologies (e.g., the lowering of sulfur content to enable use of diesel particulate filters). Further, one critical advantage of cleaner fuels has emerged — its rapid impact on both new and existing vehicles. For example, tighter new vehicle standards can take 10 or more years to be fully effective, but the removal of lead in gasoline in Asia has reduced lead emissions from all vehicles immediately.


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