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research is on developing frameworks and
methods to foster innovative solutions
towards achieving a more sustainable
energy and transportation system. At
gas emissions
ICCT, his work is aimed at reducing air
pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
from passenger vehicles globally.
Before coming to ICCT, he was a
There is a clutch of workable postdoctoral fellow in the Sloan
Automotive Laboratory at the
solutions to reduce the carbon Massachusetts Institute of technology
footprint of automobiles (MIT), where he evaluated vehicle and fuel
in China and India. technologies that can significantly reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum
Dr Anup Bandivadekar, who consumption from the US light-duty fleet
is heading the passenger over the next 30 years.
vehicle programme at the Commenting on the major initiatives that
Washington DC-based China and India should take to improve
International Council on Clean the environmental performance and
efficiency of cars, trucks, buses and
Transportation (ICCT), says public transportation systems in general,
there are many innovative Dr Bandivadekar said that these two
ways to develop a more huge countries have already initiated fuel
consumption standards.
sustainable energy and
“Since 2005, China has established
Dr Anup Bandivadekar transportation system mandatory fuel consumption standards
PTA News Bureau for passenger cars, followed by standards
China and India, the world’s most driver and a beneficiary of economic for light commercial vehicles in 2008 and
populous nations and fastest growing growth in China and India,” he told two/three wheelers in 2009,” he noted.
economies, are also the world’s largest Polymers & Tyre Asia in an interview. These fuel consumption standards are
emitters of green house gas emissions. “The near quadrupling of vehicle sales being progressively tightened and will
While China surpassed the United States over the past decade is not without its reduce the rate of growth of greenhouse
to clinch the dubious record, India is in environmental consequences.” gas emissions from such vehicles.
fourth place.
Increasing consumption of petroleum “Currently, the Chinese government is in
Dr Anup Bandivadekar, who is heading products by motor vehicles is not only the process of developing appropriate
the passenger vehicle programme at a burden on energy security, but also a fuel consumption standards for heavy
the Washington DC-based International contributor to global climate change. “The commercial vehicles as well,” he said
adding that India also needs to quickly
follow the lead of China in establishing
fuel economy standards for motor
vehicles.
Dr Bandivadekar, who holds a Bachelor
of Engineering degree from University
of Mumbai, a Master of Science from
Michigan Technological University in
Mechanical Engineering as well as
MS in Technology and Policy and a
PhD in Engineering Systems from MIT,
believes both China and India could also
rationalise their vehicle tax structure to
promote vehicle efficiency.
Fuel quality
“As outlined in a forthcoming ICCT
publication on fiscal policies to promote
vehicle fuel economy, China and India
Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), governments of India and China have could benefit from varying vehicle tax
says motor vehicles continue to be a already undertaken some initial steps to structure in proportion to the vehicle fuel
major source of air pollution, which is mitigate these problems, but much more consumption and/or CO2 emissions,” Dr
causing public health problems. could be done,” he said. Bandivadekar said.
“The automobile industry is both a major Dr Bandivadekar’s current focus of To promote in-use fuel efficiency, both
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