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Jul 5, 2012

TRUCK & ENGINE MAKERS NEWS * USA

* DC - Credits to remain central to US truck fuel efficiency 

Washington,DC,USA -AutomotiveWorld, by Alan Bunting -July 05, 2012: -- It is usual for environmental legislation to set emission standards that require the latest available technology to achieve... Under Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) legislation in the US and Canada, it is not the vehicle owner who reaps a financial benefit from 'extra clean' emissions, but the manufacturer and specifically - because of the way the North American heavy vehicle industry has traditionally been structured - the engine producer. The EPA has for many years operated a system of emission credits, a scheme looked on askance by European legislators, whereby every engine rolling off the production line that meets the current mandated limit with a margin to spare earns a credit. The accumulated credits can then be used to allow the sale by that manufacturer of other technically non-compliant engine types... The whole notion of emission credits is controversial, as evidenced by the ongoing dispute between Navistar and all its Class 8 truck market competitors over its continuing sale of trucks whose NOx (oxides of nitrogen) emissions breach EPA 2010 limits...

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