{"id":65485,"date":"2025-09-28T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=65485"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:59:53","slug":"corporate-average-fuel-efficiency-cafe-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/corporate-average-fuel-efficiency-cafe-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) Norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) Norms Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has proposed to significantly revamp its key vehicle emissions rules, called the Corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) norms, and has introduced a draft of the third iteration of the key standards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) Norms<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) norms are <\/span><b>government-mandated standards<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that require auto manufacturers to meet a fleet-wide average fuel economy target.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are introduced by the <\/span><b>Bureau of Energy Efficiency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (BEE) in 2017, aim to regulate fuel consumption and <\/span><b>CO\u2082 emissions from passenger vehicles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under 3,500 kg.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, CAFE norms were introduced in two phases, with the first stage effective from <\/span><b>2017-18 and the second from 2022-23.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These norms apply to vehicles powered by <\/span><b>petrol, diesel, LPG, CNG, hybrids<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>electric power.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> CAFE norms were designed to: Reduce oil imports, Cut air pollution, Promote cleaner vehicles like EVs, CNG cars, and hybrids.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Bureau of Energy Efficiency<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was established in 2002 under the provisions of the <\/span><b>Energy Conservation Act, 2001.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The primary objective of BEE is to reduce energy intensity in the Indian economy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Function and Duties<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It coordinates with designated consumers, designated agencies and other organizations; recognizes, identifies and utilizes the existing resources and infrastructure, in performing the functions assigned to it under the Energy Conservation Act.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-economics\/cafe-vehicular-pollution-check-rules-10274311\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) Norms are government-mandated standards that require auto manufacturers to meet a fleet-wide average fuel economy target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":65717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2952,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-65485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-corporate-average-fuel-efficiency-cafe-norms","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}