Pursuant to the GRB-67 discussions, OICA proposes to restrict the application of the partial load driving to pure electric vehicles in order to facilitate adoption of document GRB/2018/2 while allowing the ASEP informal group to further consider the proposed formulas for the ASEP anchor point.

Proposal to include the following transitional provision, “Until 18 months after the date of entry into force of the Supplement 3, it shall not apply to extensions of existing approvals, originally granted prior to the date of entry into force of Supplement 3.” This document was submitted after the WP.29 filing deadline in order to reflect recent developments. At its September 2017 session, GRB adopted a draft Supplement 3 to the 03 series of amendments to UN Regulation No. 51 and requested the secretariat to submit this proposal to the March 2018 session of WP.29. This was done in December 2017 (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2018/7). At its next session in January 2018, GRB reviewed the proposal and decided to complement it with a new provision. The secretariat was requested to submit the modification as an addendum to the original WP.29 document (ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2018/7/Add.1).

Working draft text of the ASEP II informal group as of 20 March 2018.

Listing of key documents from the 5th ASEP II informal group session prepared by the group secretary.

Proposal to add indoor testing, including ISO 362-3, as an alternative to the type approval tests in Annex 3. In addition, UN R51 allows the use mechanical or electronic devices to control the gear shifting and measures to avoid accelerations greater than 2.0 m/s². However, the measures are not defined and the manufacturer or technical service is not obliged to document the methodology in the test report. This proposal introduces a table with examples for devices and measures for reference and would require documentation of methodology used.

Proposal to exclude pure electric vehicles, including vehicles with auxiliary electric propulsion, from the scope of the regulation, to include sound-level measurement conditions for powered cycles equipped with compressed air engine and to introduce sound-level limits for powered cycles.

Table of regulations and standards revised by the informal group.

Outlook format (.msg) e-mail file summarizing Canada’s NPRM and responses. It is anticipated that a Canadian proposal will be published in early 2019 to permit the proposed option of compliance to either the US or UN standard.