24. The representative from OICA introduced GRPE-85-21 and GRPE-85-22 proposing to amend Annex 13 (Low Temperature Test Procedure) of Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15 with respect to Pure EVs. The representative from the Netherlands asked the timeline for the proposed update to UN GTR No. 15., and the representative from the EC added that updating UN GTR No. 15 was not a high priority for them. He suggested to collect all the points to be included in a forthcoming Amendment 7 to UN GTR No. 15.

25. GRPE agreed to compile all potential improvements and amendments to UN GTR No. 15 before considering a new Amendment to UN GTR No. 15 at forthcoming sessions of GRPE.

24. The representative from OICA introduced GRPE-85-21 and GRPE-85-22 proposing to amend Annex 13 (Low Temperature Test Procedure) of Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15 with respect to Pure EVs. The representative from the Netherlands asked the timeline for the proposed update to UN GTR No. 15., and the representative from the EC added that updating UN GTR No. 15 was not a high priority for them. He suggested to collect all the points to be included in a forthcoming Amendment 7 to UN GTR No. 15.

25. GRPE agreed to compile all potential improvements and amendments to UN GTR No. 15 before considering a new Amendment to UN GTR No. 15 at forthcoming sessions of GRPE.

69. The Chair introduced GRPE-83-35 as revised list of priorities to be shared with WP.29. The representative from the EC called for prior consultation within GRPE before including new element in the priority list.

70. The representative from Japan stated that carbon neutrality was now a crucial issue in the country and required the issue of life cycle analysis to be considered by GRPE as candidate to be included in the priority list, as was already the case in the GRPE emission items list (GRPE-80-04-Rev.1). the Chair agreed to consider this at the next session of GRPE in November 2021.

15. The representative from OICA introduced GRPE-83-17 amending UN GTR No. 15 with respect to peak power in NOVC-HEVs. Considering other forthcoming amendments to UN GTR No. 15 expected soon, GRPE agreed to postpone consideration of this document to forthcoming sessions of GRPE.

125. The representative from Green NCAP introduced WP.29-183-19 presenting the activities and future plans of the Green NCAP partnership.

126. The representative from the United States of America shared the experience in his country, where the “Smart Way” program rated vehicles according to their environmental performance and top performers given more prominent visibility on United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) website. The tool proved to be effective for consumers and consumer organizations, such as the Consumer Reports which has endorsed the procedure developed by US EPA for their own independent environmental tests. He insisted that clear and transparent information are key to the success of such rating programs, as well described by Green NCAP.

127. The representative from the UK congratulated Green NCAP for the presentation and welcomed the introduction of a roadmap to widen the coverage, as some vehicles are already rating the maximum five stars. He insisted it would be important to include non-exhaust particles to be monitored and confirmed the continuous support from the UK in Green NCAP.

128. The representative from the Netherlands, Chair of GRPE, welcomed this Green NCAP presentation at WP.29 and the willingness from Green NCAP to use the legislative tools offered by UNECE in their test protocols. He further asked three questions on (1) non-exhaust particulates emissions on the possibility to use the procedure currently under development at GRPE, (2) the possibility by Green NCAP to look at lifetime compliance issues and environmental performance consistency over the years and (3) if the representative from Green NCAP could elaborate on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approaches mentioned.

129. The representative from the EU thanked the representative from Green NCAP for the interesting presentation and agreed that existing emission legislation in the EU had a margin for improvement, and reminded that the EU had started the process to develop Euro 7/VII legislation with a proposal to be released by the European Commission by the end of 2021.

130. The representative from Green NCAP answered that indeed non-exhaust particulates are expected to be included in the near future, and that Green NCAP is likely to use the procedure developed by GRPE once released. On the second question, he indicated that even though NCAP means New Car Assessment Program, Green NCAP is investigating durability issues with a view of including those into the rating, looking at different options such as testing aged vehicles from the fleet, using remote sensing or artificially-aged vehicles.

131. Finally, he emphasized that LCA issues are a hot topic in the present time, and could potentially add big value to the rating system. He mentioned that in the near future, Green NCAP was planning to look at including well-to-wheel fuel life cycle into the rating, instead of the present tank-to-wheel perspective. He also announced LCA consumer tool would be introduced in the course of 2022, but insisted that, to be meaningful, the number of vehicles tested would need to be higher. He also said Green NCAP expected the LCA tool to benefit from all the research and new science now being elaborated on the topic, but he saw that as a longer-term element to be included in the rating.

132. He concluded by thanking WP.29 for the interesting exchange and the opportunity to speak.

The presentation by the experts from UTAC/CERAM on the introduction of comprehensive, simple rating information to consumers, fleet operators and other stakeholders

72. The representative from UTAC/CERAM introduced GRPE-82-31-Rev-1 on the European Green NCAP and associated Green Vehicle Index (GVI) programs. The Chair requested the consortium to come back to GRPE when more results would be available. The representative from UTAC/CERAM confirmed more results would available in the coming months and another update could be envisaged when GRPE wishes to do so.

Compares terminology between M.R. 2 in comparison to UN GTR15

54. The representative from OICA introduced GRPE-82-28 presenting differences in definitions between the latest amendment to UN GTR No. 15 and M.R.2. He further outlined different options to solve the issues raised: (a) delete M.R.2 if not maintained; (b) automatically update M.R2 when updating UN Regulations; (c) review and correct inconsistencies on a regular basis; (d) expand to other vehicle categories.

55. The representative from Germany supported the continuous development and maintenance of M.R.2. The Chair recalled M.R.2 was a key issue for the former Chair and he agreed that M.R.2 needed to be kept up-to-date. The representative from EC reminded a decision from the seventy seventh session of GRPE which was left incomplete (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/77, para. 55.)

56. GRPE requested the secretariat to submit GRPE-82-28 as a working document including a draft proposal to amend M.R.2 during the next session of GRPE in June 2021.

Proposal to correct errors and clarify provisions based on requirements introduced in the Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15.

17. The representative from EC briefly introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2021/56 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2021/57 (together with GRPE-82-10 and GRPE-82-11 as track changes version respectively) that were submitted to the March 2021 session of WP.29 from the representatives from EU and Japan as amendments to UN Regulation No. 154. Both documents proposed changes to correct some mistakes found during the development of Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15. GRPE noted the amendments proposals and thanked the Contracting Parties (CPs) involved in the preparation of these documents.

19. GRPE endorsed GRPE-82-38 and requested the secretariat to upload a clean version of GRPE-82-38 under “Documents for reference only” on the GRPE website.

Proposal to correct errors and clarify provisions based on requirements introduced in the Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15.

17. The representative from EC briefly introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2021/56 and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2021/57 (together with GRPE-82-10 and GRPE-82-11 as track changes version respectively) that were submitted to the March 2021 session of WP.29 from the representatives from EU and Japan as amendments to UN Regulation No. 154. Both documents proposed changes to correct some mistakes found during the development of Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15. GRPE noted the amendments proposals and thanked the Contracting Parties (CPs) involved in the preparation of these documents.

19. GRPE endorsed GRPE-82-38 and requested the secretariat to upload a clean version of GRPE-82-38 under “Documents for reference only” on the GRPE website.

140. Submitted for consideration and vote Amendments 6 to UN GTR No. 15 – WLTP (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2020/127, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2020/128, and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/AC.3/25/44) were adopted on 11 November 2020 by consensus vote of the following contracting parties present and voting: Australia, China, the European Union (representing Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), India, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, the Russian Federation and South Africa.

141. Canada, Malaysia, Tunisia, the Republic of Korea and United States of America abstained from voting.

140. Submitted for consideration and vote Amendments 6 to UN GTR No. 15 – WLTP (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2020/127, ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2020/128, and ECE/TRANS/WP.29/AC.3/25/44) were adopted on 11 November 2020 by consensus vote of the following contracting parties present and voting: Australia, China, the European Union (representing Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), India, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, the Russian Federation and South Africa.

141. Canada, Malaysia, Tunisia, the Republic of Korea and United States of America abstained from voting.

62. The Chair introduced GRPE-81-06 as the revised GRPE priority list following the latest guidelines received by the Administrative Committee for the Coordination of Work (WP.29/AC.2). The representative from the EC introduced GRPE-81-34 on proposed amendments to GRPE-81-06 which deleted the timeline indication for tyre wear emissions. The representative from the UK underlined that in some countries including his, tyre emissions were a high priority. The representative from the EC explained that in her view, there was not enough knowledge nor literature on the issue yet to develop regulatory material. Furthermore, she noted very few activities were expected in the near future that could feed the development of a robust test procedure. The Representative from the UK argued that priorities did not necessarily mean on-going or forthcoming activities, and that resources could be allocated based on priorities to fast track the development of knowledge for regulatory purposes.

63. The representative from OICA sought clarification on sub-23 nm PN measurements and its scope. The Chair of the IWG on PMP underlined that Sub-23 nm PN measurement was aimed for both light- and heavy-duty applications, in the laboratory and on-road. He added that the proposed Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15 endorsed by GRPE (para. 12-13) only covered the laboratory part for light-duty vehicles, and that on-road applications for both light and duty vehicles, and heavy-duty lab test were still to be developed.

64. The representative from Australia also emphasized that transposition of the latest European regulation on Heavy Duty (Euro VI Step E) into UN Regulation No. 49 should be prioritized.

65. GRPE agreed to such proposals and amended GRPE-81-06 into GRPE-81-06-Rev.1 during the session, and requested the secretariat to send GRPE-81-06-Rev.1 to WP.29 secretariat for further consideration by WP.29/AC.2.

Document also available in PDF and word versions with track changes
http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2020/wp29grpe/GRPE-81-14e_track.pdf
http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2020/wp29grpe/GRPE-81-14e_track.docx

12. The representative from EC, drafting coordinator for WLTP activities, introduced ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2020/14, as amended by GRPE-81-14, as draft Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15, together with its technical report (GRPE-81-15). The Chair from the IWG on Particulate Measurement Protocol (PMP) also presented GRPE-81-10 introducing revisions also to be included in ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2020/14 as part of Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15 on a supplementary methodology to measure sub-23nm particulates. The Chair of the IWG on PMP also introduced GRPE-81-11 providing explanatory note on the sub-23nm procedure part of Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15. He also informed GRPE that GRPE-81-11 had been included in the technical report of Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15 (GRPE-81-11 is included in GRPE-81-15).

13. GRPE adopted ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRPE/2020/14, GRPE-81-14 and GRPE-81-10 as amended by Addendum 1 to this chair’s notes. GRPE also adopted the technical report (GRPE-81-15) as reproduced in Annex V. GRPE requested the secretariat to submit Addendum 1 and Annex V to WP.29 and Executive Committee of the 1998 Agreement (AC.3) for consideration and vote at their November 2020 sessions as draft Amendment 6 to UN GTR No. 15.