Diesel Smoke

Using VW dieselgate methods and some pretty broad assumptions, I’m estimating between 150-1000 deaths and about 10,000-100,000 people developing disease (heart, lung, cancer) per year in Thailand from diesel vehicles. This is unlikely to abate with the introduction of Chinese EVs because most of the problems arise from trucks.
 

This is a long shot, but has anyone done these estimates? If so what assumptions did you make about exposure for the Thai population as a whole? Where did you find data?

I don’t see data on how many people live on the side of the road, how many hours are spent on trafficked roads, etc. I’m a professor at Columbia who studies this and plan to publish, but can’t without strong data. 

Dieselgate only killed hundreds to thousands and crippled perhaps tens to hundreds of thousands globally.  But everyday trucks here make an emissions cheat look like child’s play. So despite the smaller population, the per capita toll from diesel is likely higher. Any help would be appreciated. 
 

The major automobile manufacturers (American, Japanese) know how much harm they are doing but do not offer much by way of gasoline alternatives.