Mileage Tags in The Anvil For Indian Cars
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Carazoo
By Carazoo
Published on 06/24/2009
The Indian government is finally coming out with a regulation to display energy efficiency. The Central government has entrusted the responsibility to Bureau of Energy Efficiency. The new regulations are likely to be made mandatory by August.
It will be the first time that passenger car manufacturers will be asked to state the fuel efficiency of their products. The cars will be rated as per the fuel economy levels. Basically, the idea is to provide benchmarks for all passenger cars on fuel economy and provide a rating so that consumers have some standard based approach while deciding on purchase of their cars.
Even as car manufacturers comply with the rule per se, they differ on the parameters for standards. While environmentalists are of the opinion that the fuel efficiency be calculated on the kilometers driven per litre, car manufacturers differ on this. The automobile sector has requested the ministry of surface road transport to use carbon-di-oxide as the basis for deciding on the norms. They want a more technical parameter to gauge the pollution levels. This is already being practiced in the West, where carbon particle emitted per kilometer is stated as a measure of its fuel efficiency.
However, environmentalists counter it saying that they are trying to make it difficult for the Indian car buyers to understand the fuel efficiency levels. They say that by making the norms to obscure for the consumers to understand, car manufacturers were misleading the car buyers.
The guidelines for the norms are yet to be published. Some car manufacturers also published the fuel efficiency of their petrol and diesel engines. Remember Maruti Suzuki Ritz and Honda Jazz which announced their fuel efficiency during the launch function, itself. Most small cars already comply with the regulatory norms and will continue to do so when the new fuel efficiency norms are made effective.
When the mileage tags become mandatory, auto analysts expect that it will force car manufacturers to focus on increasing the mileage of their cars. Though this is a long thought, it is most likely to happen. The fuel economy standards will discourage car manufacture from rolling out fuel guzzlers in future.
The new mileage standards will guarantee a fixed range of run per kilometer for per litre of fuel. It standards will be applications to both petrol and diesel. All the new cars will be tested under the new norms before they are released to the public. Car buyers in India will be made aware of the standard fuel economy in small cars, mid-size cars and SUVs when they are buying the product. Decision making will become easier with norms in place.
Already fuel efficiency standards have been formulated in counties like United States, UK, Germany and Japan. Among the emerging economies, China has already made it mandatory for cars in that country. India will join the league soon. Even if the cars are able to improve their mileage by one fold it will save the government U.S. $36 billion by 2030.This will be a huge leap in savings for the Indian economy.
The Indian government is finally coming out with a regulation to display energy efficiency. The Central government has entrusted the responsibility to Bureau of Energy Efficiency. The new regulations are likely to be made mandatory by August.
Mileage Tags in The Anvil For Indian Cars
The Indian government is finally coming out with a regulation to display energy efficiency. The Central government has entrusted the responsibility to Bureau of Energy Efficiency. The new regulations are likely to be made mandatory by August.
It will be the first time that passenger car manufacturers will be asked to state the fuel efficiency of their products. The cars will be rated as per the fuel economy levels. Basically, the idea is to provide benchmarks for all passenger cars on fuel economy and provide a rating so that consumers have some standard based approach while deciding on purchase of their cars.
Even as car manufacturers comply with the rule per se, they differ on the parameters for standards. While environmentalists are of the opinion that the fuel efficiency be calculated on the kilometers driven per litre, car manufacturers differ on this. The automobile sector has requested the ministry of surface road transport to use carbon-di-oxide as the basis for deciding on the norms. They want a more technical parameter to gauge the pollution levels. This is already being practiced in the West, where carbon particle emitted per kilometer is stated as a measure of its fuel efficiency.
However, environmentalists counter it saying that they are trying to make it difficult for the Indian car buyers to understand the fuel efficiency levels. They say that by making the norms to obscure for the consumers to understand, car manufacturers were misleading the car buyers.
The guidelines for the norms are yet to be published. Some car manufacturers also published the fuel efficiency of their petrol and diesel engines. Remember Maruti Suzuki Ritz and Honda Jazz which announced their fuel efficiency during the launch function, itself. Most small cars already comply with the regulatory norms and will continue to do so when the new fuel efficiency norms are made effective.
When the mileage tags become mandatory, auto analysts expect that it will force car manufacturers to focus on increasing the mileage of their cars. Though this is a long thought, it is most likely to happen. The fuel economy standards will discourage car manufacture from rolling out fuel guzzlers in future.
The new mileage standards will guarantee a fixed range of run per kilometer for per litre of fuel. It standards will be applications to both petrol and diesel. All the new cars will be tested under the new norms before they are released to the public. Car buyers in India will be made aware of the standard fuel economy in small cars, mid-size cars and SUVs when they are buying the product. Decision making will become easier with norms in place.
Already fuel efficiency standards have been formulated in counties like United States, UK, Germany and Japan. Among the emerging economies, China has already made it mandatory for cars in that country. India will join the league soon. Even if the cars are able to improve their mileage by one fold it will save the government U.S. $36 billion by 2030.This will be a huge leap in savings for the Indian economy.