Vehicle environmental compliance system and method

A vehicle environmental compliance system comprising:

• an onboard diagnostic (“OBD”) tool configured to obtain OBD data from a vehicle's onboard diagnostics;
• an application for storage on a mobile computing device in communication with the OBD tool, the application configured to process the OBD data to form processed OBD data;
• and
• a compliance center or server for receiving the processed OBD data from the application, the compliance center or server configured to subject the processed OBD data to a compliance evaluation routine, the compliance center or server maintaining a triggering algorithm that determines when the compliance evaluation routine is performed.

A vehicle environmental compliance method comprising:

• allowing a triggering algorithm stored on a computer memory and processed via a processor to trigger a compliance evaluation for a vehicle having onboard diagnostics;
• upon triggering the compliance evaluation, electronically obtaining onboard diagnostic (“OBD”) data from an OBD tool, the OBD tool obtaining the OBD data from the vehicle's onboard diagnostics;
• and
• electronically performing a compliance evaluation routine on the obtained OBD data or a derivative thereof.