SAME GLOBAL TESTING PROCEDURES FOR DIESEL ENGINES
Recently, chief executives of the world’s leading heavy-duty engine and vehicle manufacturing companies met in New Orleans to discuss challenges facing the industry. The discussions focused on opportunities to address climate change and global energy security. The executives agreed that addressing those important topics would require developing effective fuel efficiency measurement metrics and methodologies and global fuel regulations, replacing the current European, American and Japanese rules.
Additional topics discussed included global air quality emissions standards, renewable fuels, and road and vehicle safety. Following the progress made at previous meetings, the chief executives discussed how the global harmonization of technical standards affecting heavy-duty engines and vehicles can enhance environmental performance, safety, and efficient goods movement. Among the topics addressed at the meeting were recent initiatives to improve fuel efficiency, the need for uniform metrics and measurement methodologies to provide an accurate basis for quantifying fuel efficiency of on-road goods movement, and the importance of harmonized fuel specifications and the need to develop technical and quality specifications for renewable fuels and the participants promoted and supported the hydrogenation processing routes. Further they discussed the need to develop methods to certify hybrid electric vehicles like citybuses.
As a result of today’s meeting, the chief executives of the assembled companies agreed to continue working together with governments toward harmonized global standards with an emphasis on uniform measurement and testing protocols.