Carmakers call for a long-term emissions road map
th May 2021 4:34 pm
A 10 year blueprint will allow auto companies to plan their powertrain strategies and develop cost-effective tech to meet future regulations.
Castrol 0 Comments Often panned for its contribution to air pollution, the Indian auto industry has made great strides to clean up its act in recent years. Despite the tight April 2020 deadline, it successfully
transitioned to BS6, and is now gearing up for the next round of emission norms set to kick in by 2022-23. However, the regulatory path beyond that remains unclear, which could potentially upset the automakers’ long term strategies for powertrain development.
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With new emission regulations from 2022, passenger vehicles prices set to rise The next round of regulations will kick off with the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE 2) rules in April 2022 that will lower the permissible average CO2 levels of any carmaker’s fleet from the current 130g/km to 113g/km. The following year, Real Driving Emissions (RDE) norms will require cars to achieve emission targets even in real world conditions, as opposed to just a laboratory environment. This second phase of BS6 (or BS6.2), then, is set to make the emission limits a lot harder to scale for automakers than before.