On-Road New Vehicle & Engine Certification Program
New EOs added April 06, 2021
CERTIFICATION
Certification
Overview Certification Regulations, Test Procedures and Policies Executive Orders Overview How to Search for an Executive Order Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Contacts Executive Orders Listing The Executive Orders table below will soon be replaced by an updated New Vehicle and Engine Programs Branch - Issued Executive Orders (EO) webpage after which time EOs are no longer posted on this web site. Instead, EO information is listed on Excel spreadsheets which are posted on the web page link below: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/new-vehicle-and-engine-programs-branch-issued-executive-orders |
BACKGROUND
The information on this page is for all vehicle and engine categories described above with the exception of the OFCI category for which you may wish to view OFCI certification information or OFCI Executive Orders.
To be certified, a vehicle must demonstrate that its exhaust and (as applicable, depending on the specific vehicle category) evaporative emission control systems are durable and comply with the emission standards for the vehicle's useful life. This is done through durability and certification testing of the prototype certification vehicle(s). Compliance with on-board diagnostics, anti-tampering, fuel tank fill-pipe and openings, crankcase emissions, etc., as applicable, must be demonstrated also. An application for certification must be submitted to, and approved by, the Air Resources Board (ARB) (and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) concurrently).
Production vehicles must be
identical
in all material respects to those (of the certification vehicles) for
which the certification was granted; all emissions-related production
running changes and field fixes must be approved. Production
vehicles
must be properly labeled and their emission control systems are
warranted for the specified duration. New and customer-owned
production vehicles are subject to compliance testing (by either the
manufacturers or ARB) and warranty repairs reporting by the
manufacturers, either of which can result in remedial
actions.
Certification is granted only to the manufacturer of
the vehicles who controls the vehicle specifications to ensure
compliance by all production vehicles. Certification can be
granted
to an importer only if the importer demonstrates that it has control
of the vehicle specifications. As an example, this
demonstration can
be effected by a contractual agreement between the vehicle
manufacturer and importer giving the importer the sole authority to
approve any changes to the production vehicles in the certified
engine/evaporative family. Importers lacking this vehicle
specifications control are subject to the direct-import (a.k.a.
gray-market) vehicle certification.
CERTIFICATION
REGULATIONS, TEST PROCEDURES, AND POLICIES
For
current
regulations, test procedures, and
policies, please click on the appropriate links
below.
PC-LDT-MDV-MDEV
[for PC; LDT; MDV certified under chassis test procedure; and
incomplete or diesel MDV of 8501-14000 pound GVWR certified under
engine test procedure]
- Suggested Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) and Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) Application Format: PDF(61KB)
HDE-HDV-UB-MDE [for HDE, HDV and UB (all with GVWR > 14000 pounds); and engines for use in incomplete or diesel MDV of 8501-14000 pound GVWR]
HMC [for highway on-road or "street" motorcycles]
OFMC-ATV-UV-SV-SCAR-eGC [for OFMC, ATV, off-road utility vehicle, off-road sport vehicle, sand car, and (zero-emissions) eGC]
For certification purposes, vehicles are grouped in engine families or test groups for exhaust emissions (hereinafter, engine families) and evaporative families for evaporative emissions. Within each family, the vehicles share similar designs and are expected to have similar emission characteristics. An Executive Order is issued to certify an engine family in combination with one or more evaporative families. An Executive Order is valid for production during the specified model year. Vehicles produced for another model year require another Executive Order.
Pertinent
certification information is
included in an Executive Order. Among the information
available are
the vehicle model year, engine and evaporative families, vehicle
category, emission standard category, engine displacements, operating
fuel, emission control systems, values of the exhaust and evaporative
emission standards and certification emissions, and vehicle
models.
Note that Executive Orders are issued to the vehicle
manufacturers. Some manufacturers have multiple brands
("Makes")
of vehicles. To find the Executive Order for a specific
vehicle, you
should search among the Executive Orders of the manufacturer that has
the brand of your interest. For example, you should search
among
General Motors LLC's Executive Orders for Buick, Cadillac,
Chevrolet, or GMC
vehicles. Other multi-brands manufacturers include
[Manufacturer
(brands)]: Ford (Ford, Lincoln, Mercury), Chrysler Group LLC
(Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep), Honda (Acura, Honda), Nissan
(Infiniti, Nissan), Toyota (Lexus, Scion, Toyota), Volkswagen (Audi,
VW) and BMW (BMW, Mini).
In a multi-manufacturers arrangement
between manufacturers ABC and XYZ, an Executive Order issued to
manufacturer "ABC" includes both ABC-branded vehicles and
XYZ-branded vehicles. To find the Executive Order for an
XYZ-branded
vehicle, you may have to search among the Executive Orders issued to
ABC as well as XYZ. Among the historic multi-manufacturer
arrangements certified by the ARB are: Daimler
Chrysler
Corporation-Mitsubishi, Ford-Mazda, General Motors-GMDAT
(Daewoo)-Isuzu-Subaru-Suzuki-Workhorse, Kawasaki-Suzuki, and NUMMI
(General Motors-Toyota).
HOW
TO SEARCH FOR AN EXECUTIVE ORDER
In
the
Executive Orders Listing section below, links to individual Executive
Orders are provided. Each Executive Order is indicated by its
file
name. Useful information incorporated in the file names can
help
facilitate the search for any particular Executive Order.
The
file name of each Executive Order provides information on:
manufacturer, vehicle category(ies), Executive Order number,
all
engine displacements, emission standard(s), and the alternative fuel
type (i.e., non-existence or blank here indicates that the vehicle
uses the conventional fuel, gasoline). These types of information in
the file name are shown in blocks, separated by "underscores"
(_). There are no spaces in a block (e.g., astonmartin
indicates the
manufacturer Aston Martin). Multiple entries when needed in a
block
are separated by hyphens (-), for example, the multiple engine
displacements (e.g., 3d3-3d5 indicates two engine displacements, 3.3
and 3.5) or multiple vehicle categories (e.g., pc-ldt indicates
passenger car and light-duty truck vehicle categories) within that
engine family. Dots and decimal points (.) are not used in the file
name due to potential conflict with computer software
convention.
Thus, the file name of a revised Executive Order will have the
lower-case letter "r" followed by the revision version
number in lieu of the normal decimal number (e.g., a1234567r8
indicates the eighth (8th)- revision Executive Order
A-123-4567-8).
Similarly, the lower-case letter "d" will be used in lieu
of the normal decimal point in engine displacements (e.g., 3d3
indicates 3.3) or emission standards (e.g., 0d10 indicates
0.10).
Manufacturer names generally are not abbreviated. The
few exceptions are listed here. "bmw"
stands for the
manufacturer Bayerische Motoren Werke AG which produces BMW and Mini
vehicles. "dcag" stands for the
manufacturer
DaimlerChrysler AG which generally produces Mercedes
vehicles. "dcco"
stands for the manufacturer DaimlerChrysler Corporation which
generally produces Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth and Jeep
vehicles.
"gmdat" stands for the manufacturer
General
Motors-Daewoo Automotive Technology which is affiliated with General
Motors Corporation and produces vehicles for General Motors and
General Motors' affiliates (e.g., Suzuki) under multi-manufacturers
arrangements. "nummi" stands for
the manufacturer
New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. which produces General Motors
and Toyota vehicles under a multi-manufacturers arrangement.
And,
"subaru" is used in lieu of the
manufacturer Fuji
Heavy Industries, Ltd. which produces Subaru vehicles and other
vehicles for General Motors and General Motors' affiliates (e.g.,
Saab, Suzuki) under multi-manufacturers arrangements.
Knowing
the make, model, vehicle category, engine size, and fuel of the
vehicle of your interest, you should be able to find the Executive
Order certifying that particular vehicle in as few as just one try by
applying the Executive Order file naming rules below.
Executive
Order File Name for PC, LDT, MDV, and MDEV
Manufacturer_Vehicle
Category(1A)_EO Number_All Engine Displacements
(in liters)_Standard
Category(2)_Non Gasoline Fuel(3)
Executive Order File Name
for HDE, HDV, UB, and MDE (engines used in 8501-14000 Pound GVWR
diesel or incomplete MDV)
Manufacturer_Category(1B)_EO
Number_All Engine Displacements (in liters)_NMHC+NOX
(or NOX) and PM
(in that order) Standards or FELs (in g/bhp-hr)_Non Diesel or Non
Gasoline Fuel(3)
Executive Order File Name for HMC
Manufacturer_EO Number_All Engine Displacements (in
cc)_HC or HC+NOX Standard_Standard Type(4)
Executive Order
File Name for Complying (i.e., Green-Sticker) OFMC, ATV, UV, SV, SCAR,
and
eGC
Manufacturer_Vehicle Category(1C)_EO Number_All
Engine
Displacements (in cc)
Executive Order File Name for
Non-Complying (i.e., Red-Sticker) OFMC and ATV
Manufacturer_Vehicle
Category(1C)_EO Number_All Engine Displacements
(in cc)
NOTES:
(1A) | pc = passenger car; ldt = light-duty truck; mdv = medium-duty vehicle; mdev = incomplete or diesel vehicle using a certified medium-duty engine | |||||
(1B) | hdoe = engine under heavy-duty Otto test procedure; hdov = vehicle using a certified HDOE; lhdd = light heavy-duty engine under diesel test procedure; mhdd = medium heavy-duty engine under diesel test procedure; hhdd = heavy heavy-duty engine under diesel test procedure; ub = urban bus engine; mdoe = Otto-test procedure engine for use in incomplete medium-duty vehicles; mdde = diesel-test procedure engine for use in medium-duty vehicles | |||||
(1C) | ofmc = off-road motorcycle; atv = all-terrain vehicle; uv = off-road utility vehicle; sv = off-road sport vehicle; scar = sand car; egc = zero-emissions electric golf cart | |||||
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(3) | diesel = diesel; cng = compressed natural gas; hevde = hybrid diesel-electric; hevge = hybrid gasoline-electric; lng = liquefied natural gas; ng = both cng or lng; lpg = liquefied petroleum gas; e85 = "85%" ethanol; cngas = dual-fuel cng or gasoline; lngas = dual-fuel lng or gasoline; ngas = dual-fuel cng or lng or gasoline; lpgas =dual-fuel lpg or gasoline; cngplusdiesel = bi-fuel cng and diesel; lngplusdiesel = bi fuel lng and diesel; ngplusdiesel = bi-fuel both cng and diesel, and lng and diesel; e = electricity; h = hydrogen | |||||
(4) | h = hydrocarbon; hn = HC+NOx; z = electric, zero-emissions |
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) WEB PAGE
Pre Delivery Checklist for ARB Confirmatory Test Vehicle - Highway Motorcycles, Off-Highway Recreational Vehicles (PDF -128K)
CONTACTS
Passenger Cars, Light-Duty Trucks, Medium-Duty Vehicles: Mr. Duc Nguyen, (626) 575-6844
Heavy-duty GHG vehicles: Mr. Lucky Benedict, (626) 450-6181.
Production audit: Mr. William McDuffee, (626) 450-6159.
All others: Mr. William McDuffee, (626) 450-6159.
Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles:
Otto-standards: Mr. Babak Pazokifard, (626) 450-6128.
Diesel-standards: Mr. Babak Pazokifard, (626) 450-6128.
Highway Motorcycles:
Mr. Steven Hada, (626) 575-6641.
Off-Road Motorcycles, All-Terrain Vehicles, Off-Road Utility Vehicles, Off-Road Sport Vehicles, Sand Cars, Electric Golf Carts:
Ms. Veronica Longhi, (626) 575-6642.
Direct-Import (DI) (a.k.a. Gray-Market) Vehicles:
New DI vehicles: Mr. Steven Hada, (626) 575-6641.
Used DI vehicles/Licensing of test labs: Ms. Veronica Longhi, (626) 575-6642.
The Executive Orders table below will soon be replaced by an updated New Vehicle and Engine Programs Branch - Issued Executive Orders (EO) webpage after which time EOs are no longer posted on this web site. Instead, EO information is listed on Excel spreadsheets which are posted on the web page link below:
https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/new-vehicle-and-engine-programs-branch-issued-executive-orders
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