Passenger vehicles

The first stage of a corporate average fuel consumption (CAFC) standard for passenger vehicles was announced under the Gazette of India Extraordinary No. S.O 1072 (E) dated April 23, 2015. There are two sets of the standards. The first standard would be effectively implemented from fiscal year 2017-2018, and the second standard would come into force from fiscal year 2022-2023.

According to the first standard, the average weight of all cars is expected to be 1,037 kg in fiscal year 2016-2017 and the maximum CAFC is set at 5.49 liters/100 km equivalent to 130 g CO2/km. The second standard assumes the average weight of all cars of 1,145 kg in 2022 and set the maximum CAFC of 4.77 liters/100 km equivalent to 113 g CO2/km.

Note that CAFC is the average of the standard fuel cons