On July 28, MIIT issued a call for comments on mandatory national standard “Limits of Fuel Consumption for Light-duty Commercial Vehicles (Draft for Comment)”. The deadline to make comments is September 28.

This standard stipulates the limits of fuel consumption of light commercial vehicles, the calculation method and evaluation index of enterprise average fuel consumption, the requirements on production conformity, the determination of the type, and the date of implementation of the standard.

This standard applies to category N1 vehicles with a maximum design speed higher than or equal to 50 km/h and category M2 vehicles with a maximum design mass not exceeding 3,500 kg, including petrol or diesel vehicles, pure electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, and vehicles combusting gas fuel and alcohol ether fuel.

This standard does not apply to vehicles for special operations.

The new standard will replace its 2015 edition. Compared with it, the draft for comments made the following major changes：

a) Modified the scope of application;

b) Modified the method for fuel consumption determination;

c) Added the method for the calculation of reference values of CO₂ emissions;

d) Modified fuel consumption limit requirements;

e) Added requirements for average enterprise fuel consumption;

f) Modified the requirements for production conformity;

g) Modified the requirements for type determination;

h) Added the type certification report/type certification application report for the energy consumption of hybrid vehicles.

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