If you own a diesel car, chances are it's fitted with a Diesel Particulate Filter — DPF for short. They can be a source of problems but our guide will help you avoid them. How Diesel Particulate ...

Chances are your diesel has a particulate filter, or DPF. If your DPF light comes on, one of the first courses of action ...

We all know by now that the mandated 2007 and 2010 emissions standard rules radically changed on-highway diesel-powered trucks and tractors. To reduce emissions to satisfy the Environmental Protection ...

Detroit Diesel's Chuck Blake offers an interesting perspective on diesel particulate filters. He says he owns them, even though every truck owner who has purchased a Detroit engine on every 2008 model ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 113, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (2004), pp. 2046-2052 (7 pages) In this paper, a diesel particulate filter system which uses needle felt as filtering medium to ...

Volkswagen has yet to get modifications to reduce the emissions of TDI diesel cars with illegal "defeat device" software approved by U.S. regulators. But while it continues to wrestle with that ...

Mercedes-Benz says it will equip particulate filters not only on vehicles powered by diesel engines, but those that use gasoline as well. The move applies for now only to the European market, which ...

The Volkswagen Group may be focused on going electric, but that doesn’t mean it’s abandoning internal combustion engines, especially if it can cut back on emissions. VW announced a new particulate ...

Daimler announced that its Neu-Ulm Setra touring coaches and rural buses will optionally be available for delivery starting from October 2010 in compliance with the EEV emissions standard without a ...

Starting next month, all BMW gasoline and plug-in hybrid vehicles sold in Germany will be fitted with a Gasoline Particulate Filter (GPF) to reduce emissions. The move will bring all BMW gasoline ...