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Article: New limits set on car fuel consumption
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Designers of new Chinese vehicles are being urged to stoke the
country's energy austerity drive by meeting the nation's first
standards that cap fuel consumption for passenger cars.
The compulsory "Limits of Fuel Consumption for Passenger Cars," to
be enacted by July 1, aims to cut litres per 100 kilometres by up to
10 per cent by 2008 in the first stage, Director of Standardization
Administration of China Li Zhonghai said on Thursday.
The second stage, which starts in 2008, requires vehicle fuel
consumption to drop by another 10 per cent from the first phase
level, he said.
The national statute, following a string of standards that began
in September to place ceilings on industrial water ...