Performance of the Chinese New Vehicle Fleet Compared to Global Fuel Economy and Fuel Consumption Standards（February 2014 / Clean Transportation Program）

This study attempts to provide policy-makers with the tools to consider the adoption of footprint-based standards (recently adopted in the US), and evaluate the relative stringency of national standards against the EU and Japan’s standards. First, this paper introduces selected global standards (namely US, EU, Japan, and China), outlines their historic development and evaluates their implementation success, and then the methodology and results are outlined.