New fuel consumption standards are being approved

In response to the news, “The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption Limit (the third stage standard) will be issued in December and the fuel consumption standard will be reduced by 20%”, the drafter of the standard and the Institute of Standardization of China Automotive Technology and Research Center on November 22 Director Wu Wei received an exclusive interview with the newspaper and answered various questions about the standard. He said that the standard was being approved and was not far from the date of publication.

The actual implementation of new energy-saving vehicles will meet the new standards will be implemented when the new standards, Wu Wei said, "Passenger fuel consumption evaluation methods and indicators" was completed in the first half of this year, and submitted to the approval of government agencies, is currently In the approval stage, due to the introduction of a new standard needs to consider various factors, the approval also takes some time, the specific release time has not been finalized.

He emphasized that it is certain that because the standard adopts a gradual goal and requires the car companies to meet standards in 2015, the date for the introduction of this standard will not be too far.

Wu Wei said that there are many interpretations of this standard in the current report that are inaccurate. First of all, the name of the standard is not the “Limit of Fuel Consumption of Passenger Vehicles”. “The third phase” can only be said to be a popular one. In fact, this standard is a brand new standard, and it is not an improvement based on the fuel consumption limit of passenger cars in the second stage.

Wu Wei said that the new passenger car fuel consumption evaluation standards and the biggest difference is that no longer a single vehicle model is the target, and all car models belonging to a single car company are included in the assessment scope, that is, car companies can produce various types of models annually. The weighted average of fuel consumption must not exceed the limit standard. He used a popular metaphor for this. "It's like a classmate taking an exam and a 60-point pass. Since the grades of students in a class are not consistent, we don't require every student in this class. They all reached 60 points. Only one pass student is required to meet the standard. For example, the pass rate of the whole class is 80%."

As for the number of indicators in the end, Wu Wei said, in fact, this standard has been implemented, the recent national launch of the "energy-saving products Huimin project" in the energy-saving car promotion catalog models have reached the fuel consumption standards. The new standard will propose progressive goals and set appropriate transition periods. The target value of the average fuel consumption of the relevant enterprises will be required to be imported from 2012. It will set a target every year to allow enterprises to reduce the level of fuel consumption each year and eventually make our country The average fuel consumption of passenger vehicles will be reduced to about 7L/100km by 2015.

Wu Wei said that this standard has undergone a lot of practical investigation during the formulation process and is completely achievable from a technical point of view.

It is reported that when the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology discussed the draft standard, it had already started the study of supporting fiscal policies linked to standards. It is reported that non-complying car companies will be subject to tax punishment, and car companies that are better than the standard will enjoy reduced tax tax rates.