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Cars Marketing - Standards & Benchmarks Fuel-efficiency labels on cars to be made mandatory soon 
Mr Jairam Ramesh Debabrata Das New Delhi, Sept. 2 Come 2011, car buyers will be able to tell how fuel efficient the car is. They will no longer have to depend on data put out by manufacturers, as the Government has decided to insist on fuel-efficiency labelling of all automobiles. The information on the labels will have to be certified by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). “There will be mandatory fuel-efficiency standards for the transport sector in two years, whatever the problems,” the Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, promised on the sidelines of FICCI’s India Carbon Market Conclave. “To begin with, we will have voluntary compliance and in two years it will become mandatory. For different categories of vehicles, there will be different standards,” he said. A similar rating system is in place for electrical appliances such as refrigerators and air-conditioners as also other home appliances for which the BEE provides the certification. By January 7, 2010 that too will become mandatory. In the case of automobiles also, the BEE will verify the fuel-efficiency of cars before manufacturers can use the label. At present, most car-makers give out fuel-efficiency numbers based on running the car in ideal conditions. After the mandatory labelling comes into force, fuel-efficiency will be based on on-road tests. Fuel-efficiency labels are mandatory in various parts of the world such as the European Union, the US. Singapore, and elsewhere. In the US, in fact, cars that fail to make the fuel-efficiency standards have to pay an additional “guzzler tax”. Bharat Stage-IV norms to be operational from April 1 More Stories on : Cars | Standards & Benchmarks
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