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Friday, 14 March 2008

60% of cars don’t meet fuel efficiency specifications
If the new government norm on fuel efficiency is introduced, 60% of the cars being sold in showrooms will never see Indian roads. As per new standards, most of these cars consume a lot of fuel and are pretty low on mileage. It’s high time that these fancy sets of wheels got fancy numbers for fuel economy.

Only 40% of the car models today qualify. None of the SUVs meet the new fuel efficiency norms and aren’t suitable to off-roading anywhere in India. If enforced, the new norm will bring the current car bonanza to an abrupt end.

To discourage low fuel efficiency cars, the US government has levied a gas guzzler tax on such models. Though not exactly same, this is something on similar lines from the Indian government. We don’t know when the new norm will be enforced but this news should get all car manufacturers working feverishly on newer engines and technologies.

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3 Comments:

At 17 March 2008 13:12 , Anonymous KV@Mumbai said...

It is really sad to know that cars in india do not match the norms.If the goverment had taken care of this earlier that such issue would have never hit the car market.

 
At 18 March 2008 14:54 , Anonymous eeon-spark said...

It is amazing that cars will not meet emission standards. If government is really concerned about ambient condition, they should go ahead with it. They should not succumb to car lobby as they have done in other policies. I hope the norm is established.

 
At 18 March 2008 17:44 , Anonymous vetra said...

Considering that Indian government has been lacking interest in such finer subjects like environment, this was expected. India has never been hard on any foreign company with rule and regulations. the same lack f enforcement will affect the fuel efficiency policy. This will only remain a piece of news.

 

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