{"id":13119,"date":"2019-04-01T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.epsa-operationsprocurement.com\/actualites\/new-standards-vehicles-implications-vehicle-fleets-fuel-tax\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:01:00","slug":"new-standards-vehicles-implications-vehicle-fleets-fuel-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epsa-operationsprocurement.com\/en\/blog\/new-standards-vehicles-implications-vehicle-fleets-fuel-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"New standards for vehicles, What are the implications for vehicle fleets? (fuel and tax)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Almost everyone now knows the acronym WLTP (World harmonized Test Procedures) Light- duty concerning the evolution of the rolling cycle and the evolution of test procedures.
\nWLTP supersedes the NEDC standard. The transition between its two standards (from 01\/09\/2018 to 31\/12\/2019) takes place under the name NEDC\u00b2 or NEDC correlated.<\/p>\n
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The direct consequence of this new standard is the 20 to 30% increase in certified CO\u00b2 emissions.<\/p>\n
To reduce this increase, manufacturers will, among other things, try to limit the weight of the vehicle, increase its aerodynamics, and equip them with low rolling resistance tires.<\/p>\n
And the fuel in all this? The 3 changes that must be remembered:<\/p>\n
WLTP will be supplemented by the RDE (Real Driving Emissions) regulation concerning pollutant emissions (NOx and fine particulate matters). These are tests in real driving conditions made thanks to a mobile laboratory connected to the vehicle exhaust.<\/p>\n
We will be able to:<\/p>\n
Compliance with pollutant thresholds will therefore be guaranteed.
\nThese WFA regulations will be implemented after 2020.<\/p>\n
Please note that Euro 6 diesel vehicles (standard in force since 2015) emit less NOx than the legal threshold that will come into force in January 2020, which is not yet the case for petrol vehicles.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) regulation will impose an average CO\u00b2 emission threshold on manufacturers not to exceed. Effective on 2020 sales, it will be able to, from 2021, cost hundreds of millions of euros of fines to manufacturers that have not mastered the maximum weighted CO\u00b2 emission rate of vehicle sales.<\/p>\n
The Volkswagen, PSA, FCA and Ford groups are at risk. Lower diesel combined with wholesale SUV could have a 20% impact on the profits of these manufacturers. Priority for small vehicles (city cars, 55% compact 27%) which now represent +80% of the French market (and constantly increasing) becomes a major issue for these manufacturers. More sober models in step with the pressure on the CO\u00b2 drop become the answer.<\/p>\n
To avoid these heavy fines, manufacturers will have to :<\/p>\n
Vehicle offerings are no longer sustainable, it is difficult to set up vehicle catalogues for a duration of more than three months. The attraction for petrol vehicles does not meet, for the moment, the offer of manufacturers who have difficulty to offer a complete and varied offer (motor).
\nThe new environmental constraints are driving up the price of vehicles, and the tax burden is also contributing to the increase in the TCO.
\nThe obligation of manufacturers to contain and limit CO\u00b2 emissions from vehicles sold will limit the power and weight of vehicles on the one hand and significantly increase the price of large vehicles (SUV, Minivan). The market may eventually turn to sedans and breaks, lighter vehicles.<\/p>\n
Finally the arrival of new energies (electric with battery or hydrogen) will force companies to finance themselves the infrastructures of charging of their vehicles.<\/p>\n
The Government has certainly an ambitious programme which, from 2023, aims to establish 100,000 public charging points in the territory (in particular through a reform of the benefit in kind in order to facilitate recharging in companies), 100 hydrogen stations, 770 CNG stations.<\/p>\n
The time will come when companies will have to choose between limiting their fleet in order to contain costs or accepting an explosion of their TCOs.<\/p>\n
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