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 ...

The particulate filter is pretty much mandatory in diesel cars these days. Its association with diesel-powered cars brought it the handle DPF, which stands for diesel particulate filter. Now, though, ...

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 ...

The Volkswagen Group is following the lead of its German rival Mercedes-Benz in introducing particulate filters for petrol engines. Claimed to reduce the emission of fine soot particles from the ...

Daimler AG, the company that owns Mercedes-Benz, already announced that it would gradually introduce particulate filters for its gasoline engines. Now, Volkswagen has decided to follow Daimler in this ...

Initially, the particulate filters will be fitted in the Volkswagen Tiguan and the Audi A5 petrol engines, followed by further plans to install the same in 7 million units The Volkswagen Group has ...

Volkswagen Group has announced that it will be introducing large-scale usage of particulate filters for its petrol-powered cars. These so-called 'gasoline particulate filters' are being introduced as ...

Apart from fixing its diesel models, Volkswagen has announced that, from 2017, it will begin installing its petrol engines with particulate filters in an effort to slash emissions of fine soot ...

A growing number of petrol cars are being fitted with petrol particulate filters – also called gasoline particulate filters – in order to meet the latest stringent emissions limits. According to ...

The ongoing scandal over diesel emissions has rocked the car world and there has been a small but noticeable shift from buying diesel to buying petrol. It’s not as dramatic as the changeover we saw in ...

Diesel particulate filters are one of the major additions to exhaust systems in recent years, and they are a blessing and a curse. Used since 2007 to meet EPA regulations, DPFs strip soot and ash from ...

The Volkswagen Group has been in damage control mode since the dieselgate scandal came to light last year. However, while the company has been battling great financial strain thanks to the penalties ...