ICAT Issued the First BS-VI Engine Certificate

Question- Recently, the International Automotive Technology Center (ICAT) issued the first BS-VI engine certificate to which auto-mobile company?
(a) Tata Motors
(b) Maruti Suzuki Company
(c) M / s Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicle Ltd.
(d) Hyundai Motors Company
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:

  • On July 5th, 2018, ICAT issued the first BS-VI certification for a heavy duty engine model for M/s Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicle Limited.
  • The engine has been developed and manufactured indigenously by Volvo Eicher in India.
  • The successful completion of the compliance test of the engine, much ahead of the implementation date of 1 April, 2020, gives sufficient time for product stabilization in terms of making it more robust and cost competitive for the end consumers.
  • The pro-active approach from the Government of India has made the country leapfrog from the conventional BS-IV to directly adopt BS-VI emission norms as the next level for regulatory framework in India.
  • The BS-VI emission standards are much more elaborate in their scope and integrate substantial changes to existing emission standards ensuring cleaner products to the consumer.
  • Besides the more stringent limits on the gaseous emission components, the particulate matter (PM) limits have also been significantly reduced along with the introduction of particle number (PN) limits.
  • The International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) is a division of NATRiP implementation society (NATIS), under the administrative control of Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Government of India.
  • ICAT is the first of new world class centers established under the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP) with the main objective of carrying out Research & Development besides extending homologation facilities in the field of Automotive Engineering.
  • ICAT is one of the prime testing agencies recognized by the Government of India as one of the accredited ‘Type Approval and Homologation’ agencies in India under Central Motor Vehicle Rules (CMVR).
  • ICAT has emerged as a comprehensive technical partner of the automotive industry.
  • Bharat stage emission standards (BSES) were implemented in the year 2000 based on Standards of European regulations.

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