Research Reports
2016 China Green Car Finalists (August 2016 / Clean Transportation Program)
This brochure showed to consumers the Top 10/5 rankings for ten vehicle categories, including Small, Compact, Mid-size, Large, SUV, MPV, Luxury, Sports and PHEV (PHEV was ranked for the first time). Green Score, Blue Score, and GCC Rating were illustrated in the ranking, aiming to encourage consumers to choose vehicle models with less environmental impacts. Green Car China Ranking has been supported by Energy Foundation (financially), UNEP and MEP-VECC (technically) and entered its 7th year since public release.
BestEV v1.0 Methodology Summary Brief (May 2016 / Clean Transportation Program)
The BestEV v1.0 methodology summary brief is meant to provide a quick overview of the process and results of each of the BestEV methodology development stage and the final result. The brief also includes the calculation method or arriving at the BestEV v1.0 qualitative and quantitative criteria, as well as an end results divided to vehicle cost ranges.
CUTEC (PV) v1.0 Policy Recommendations (April 2016 / Clean Transportation Program)
The China Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator (CUTEC) private vehicles (PV) version 1.0 is the fruit of iCET CTTP year of project development together with E4Tech. While designed to support urban transport decision making through the comparison of various policy impacts on local air quality and carbon emissions, as well as other related effects such as congestion, CUTEC developed included multiple discussions and information exchanges between its developers and supported. These have been collected to comprise the CUTEC policy recommendations report aimed at summarising project lessons and suggested next steps for improving policy-making processes. The CUTEC project was funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the UK Strategic Posterity Fund, and the Blue Moon Fund.
CUTEC (PV) v1.0 Guidebook (April 2016 / Clean Transportation Program)
The China Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator (CUTEC) private vehicles (PV) version 1.0 Guidebook was developed for providing background and support to users of the tool. Meant to support urban transport decision making through the comparison of various policy impacts on local air quality and carbon emissions, as well as other related effects such as congestion, CUTEC is designed as an open-source: it is an Office spreadsheet tool that enables insights into the entire design and calculation processes, it is adjustable to local conditions and requirements, and it is free for use. iCET CTTP team is glad to provide support and training for making the use of the tool easy and valuable; for related inquiries email info@icet.org.cn. The CUTEC project was funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the UK Strategic Posterity Fund, and the Blue Moon Fund.
The China Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator (CUTEC) private vehicles (PV) version 1.0 (March 2016/Clean Transportation Program)
The China Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator (CUTEC) private vehicles (PV) version 1.0 is the fruit of iCET CTTP year of project development together with E4Tech. The calculator is meant to support urban transport decision making through the comparison of various policy impacts on local air quality and carbon emissions, as well as other related effects such as congestion. CUTEC is designed to be an open-source: it is an Office spreadsheet tool that enables insights into the entire design and calculation processes, it is adjustable to local conditions and requirements, and it is free for use. The calculator was refined through the support of the Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center in providing Shenzhen actual fleet data. Among reviewers and contributors to CUTEC are the Shenzhen Transport Development Research Institute (TDRI), Shenzhen Tsinghua Graduate School, Sun Yet Sen University, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and others. The CUTEC project was funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the UK Strategic Posterity Fund, and the Blue Moon Fund.
China Consumer EV Choice Preference Study Brief (Feb. 2016/Clean Transportation Program)
China NEV market is set to grow rapidly for internalizing ambitious government goals, yet real market growth requires more than supply-side benefits. In order to ensure that demand expectations and preferences are being met, a better understanding of the average consumer is due. In particular, understanding consumer sensitivity to mileage, parking and brand are assumed to be the key for unlocking EV commercialization bottlenecks: at the policy design level, transport infrastructure development, auto-manufacturing strategy, and third parties involved in the complex NEV ecosystem. In an effort to include the general public in sustainable private vehicle decision-making, iCET have partnered with its former intern and current PhD student from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), John Helveston, for designing a user friendly yet scientifically robust survey. The survey was distributed utilizing iCET official and its stakeholders’ social media channels (primarily WeChat) and its analysis reaffirmed previous studies and yielded some new insights.
The Design of China's First EV Crowd Ranking Platform: BestEV Methodology Development Report (January 2016/ Clean Transportation Program)
Local and national policymakers have taken steps to increasingly strengthen consumer benefits in order to accelerate NEV commercialisation but despite these efforts, supply and demand of high-quality EVs has remained low. As a step to increase EV performance, BestEV aims to provide the general public and automakers with insights regarding China’s EV market.This report is the first milestone of the BestEV platform:a transparent scientific methodology was developed with its basis in meta-analysis review, then in collaboration with 28 experts through the employment of the Delphi Method,and later finalisedthrough consultation with various experienced stakeholders in a dedicated consensus development workshop.
China Passenger Vehicle Fuel Consumption 2015 Development Annual Report (Dec.2016/Clean Transportation Program)
It has been 9 years since China's fuel consumption standards went into their implementation phase. During this period, China's domestic average fuel consumption improved from 8.16L/100km to 7.12L/100km (if incorporating the contributions brought by new energy vehicles). China's overall per-km fuel consumption was reduced by 12.7% during this period, with an average annual decrease of about 3%. This report utilizes key indicators that track the development of China’s CAFC standards implementation on the vehicle level, single company and corporate level, and from an NEV perspective.
2015 Green Car China Annual Report (September 2015 / Clean Transportation Program)
This year's report presents the Top green performing models out of China’s Top 50 selling cars of 2014, as well as Top 10 green performing models in each of nine different car segments (hybrids, small, compact, mid-size, large, luxury, SUV, MPV, sports car). The sales of China's top 10 best-rated cars on the green rating out of the best 50 sales have reached 3.098 million, accounting for 15.7% of the annual total passenger vehicle sales, which have increased by nearly 60%. Among them, there are four models ranked in the Top 10 best-selling cars, and the overall proportion has increased compared to last year. This year, the Toyota LEXUS CT200h achieved the best green score and a relatively good smog score of 1.5 (Japanese manufacturers typically score well on the smog index). Among independent brands, Changan mini received a remarkable green score of 7.0, and its outstanding smog score was 1.4. The result is attributed to not only its small engine size and low fuel consumption level, but also to efforts made by its manufacturer to curb tailpipe emissions.The report is based on MEP-VECC contributed smong data and has received the support of the UNEP.Best performing models have granted their manufacturers with an annual award distributed in a dedicated Gala Dinner in changzhou on September 23.
China Real World and Certified Fuel Consumption Gap Analysis (July 2015 / Clean Transportation Program)
Although the “light vehicle fuel consumption test method" standard was released over ten years ago (in 2004) and light vehicle labeling regulation was release over five years ago (in 2010), most vehicles’ actual fuel consumption is higher than the certified fuel consumption value. The status today is even more complex, since there is little information on actual fuel consumption levels. iCET in collaboration with China BearOil App collected over 210,000 valid samples of fuel consumption levels reported by drivers from various locations in China between 2008 and 2014 and an average of the reported values was compared with China’s fuel consumption certification. The analysis performed in this study therefore introduces a novel attempt to provide stakeholders with some insights that could hereafter be more thoroughly studied.