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Export of consistently higher-emitting vehicles from Great Britain. Exported vehicles (orange) are consistently more polluting (a) than contemporary scrapped (green) and used on-road (blue) vehicles. Cleaner choices and improving standards have lowered exported emissions, after considerable delay, but the gap between exported and scrapped fleets persists (b) and is growing post-pandemic. Scrapped vehicles are cleaner than exports across 5,874 (95%) of our 6,145 observed postcode regions (2005-2021 inclusive) covering every community in Britain (c). Grey regions have insufficient data or no inspection sites. Orange line (b) shows locally weighted smoothed spline; note non-zero y-axis (a) to emphasise variation.
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