Motor vehicle emissions
- Clean Cars for NSW is one element of the NSW Government's Cleaner Vehicles Action Plan. This guide explains the NSW clean car benchmarks, an environmental rating system that will help new car buyers choose between models.
- Clean Cars for NSW: cleancars.pdf (209 kb, requires Acrobat Reader)
- Green vehicles guide website
- NRMA Greensafe car profiler
Part 3 of the Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Regulation 2002 covers motor vehicles and motor vehicle fuels.
Action for Air: The NSW Government's 25 year air quality management plan targets smog and particle pollution and covers all the major sources of air pollution in the Greater Metropolitan Region of Sydney, the Lower Hunter and the Illawarra. It covers motor vehicles and related transport and planning issues, major industrial sources, smaller commercial and industrial sources and domestic sources.
Approved Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Air Pollutants in NSW: The methods to be used for sampling and analysing air pollutants for statutory purposes. Covers pollutants in emissions from stationary sources, including continuous monitoring of such emissions; pollutant emissions from motor vehicles; components in and properties of petroleum products; and pollutants in ambient air.
Smoky vehicles: The smoky vehicle enforcement program aims to reduce vehicle emissions to air by ensuring owners properly maintain their vehicles. A smoky vehicle is any motor vehicle that emits visible smoke continuously for over ten seconds. For more detailed information and online reporting forms go to the smoky vehicles web pages.
Page last updated: 20 November 2009
