Japanese fuel efficiency and environmental standards and policies to promote environmentally friendly vehicles.

Two-slide introduction to the parallel electric vehicle informal group working on safety standards.

Current status of plug-in electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the U.S. market, U.S. regulatory landscape, U.S. government incentives, market drivers and barriers.

Canadian NGO presentation on electric vehicle and electricity infrastructure convergence (electric vehicle/smart grid interoperability).

Proposed agenda for the Electric Vehicle Environmental Performance informal group session planned for 14 January 2013.

Research topics and open discussion items from the second Electric Vehicle Environmental Performance informal working group.

Invitation to register for the Heavy Duty Hybrids emissions test procedure informal working group session scheduled for 10-12 October in Ottawa, Canada.

Revised overview of the informal group effort to develop the WLTP global technical regulation (GTR) for the informal group on establishing a GTR on the environmental performance of electric vehicles.

Correction to the proposal from Working Party “Brussels 1952” (GTB) to revise paragraph 5.23 to clarify the requirements on the replacement of light sources approved according to UN R37.

Corrections to the text adopted by the GRPE to amend Regulation No. 49 in order to establish provisions for the type-approval of heavy-duty dual-fuel vehicles.

Proposal prepared by the WP.29 secretariat to correct a number of errors identified during the work to develop the 06 Series of Amendments for Regulation
No. 49 and currently affecting the 06 series of amendments to the Regulation No. 83.

Visits to Environment Canada (EC) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
Facilities in conjunction with the Heavy Duty Hybrids informal group session 11 in Ottawa, Canada.

Editorial group draft for the 12th REC session of the regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of Retrofit Emission Control Devices (REC) for heavy duty vehicles, agricultural and forestry tractors and non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) equipped with Compression Ignition engines.

Rev.00 of the editorial group working draft without markups.

Clean copy for the 12th REC session of the draft Amendment 1 (with transitional provisions) to the REC regulation under development.

TNO presentation on the results of its simulation of a retrofit selective catalytic reduction system.

Draft report from the August 2012 session of the editorial working group drafting the text of the proposed retrofit emissions control device regulation. [Published with a duplicate reference number REC-12-08. Changed by GAR to REC-12-10 for convenience.]

Planning and task schedule for development of the proposed regulation on retrofit emissions control devices prior to the 12th REC informal group session.

Comments from Hungary on the working draft of the proposed regulation on retrofit emissions control devices.

Report of the proceedings from the 24-25 April 2012 session of the group.

Status of the work towards developing a methodology for certifying heavy-duty hybrids based on “hardware in the loop simulation” (HILS).