Florida adopted California's standards for regulating highway emissions as federal code prohibits states, with the exception of California, from issuing emission laws. Cars and trucks issue encircling 27 percent of the greenhouse gases in Florida. Regulating highway emission standards saves Florida consumers money--vehicles that happy the highway emission standards are bounteous fuel-efficient, allowing consumers to save on fuel costs.
The rules define an intermediate notebook vehicle manufacturer as a dealer with sales between 3,001 and 60,000 of au courant vehicles based on the morals quantity of vehicles sold by the manufacturer for the preceding three consecutive pattern age. The rules aggregate vehicle sales for different car manufacturers: (i) vehicles are produced by two or more entities with one having a 10 percent or more equity ownership in the other manufacturer; or (ii) vehicles manufactured by two or more entities if a third party has an equity ownership of 50 percent or more in each firm.
Direct Emission Allowances
A manufacturer may utilize a direct emission allowance if the air
conditioning system meet the following criteria: (i) vehicles contain a low-leak air conditioning system that connects all pipes and hoses using only multiple o-rings, seal washers or metal gaskets; (ii) the refrigerant hoses must consist of leak-resistant materials; and (iii) the air conditioning system must contain multiple-lip compressor shaft seals.
Small Volume Manufacturers
The rules define a microscopic tome manufacturer as a dealer with sales of less than 4,500 vehicles based on the standard for the former three consecutive example senility. For 2001-2006 example vehicles, the rules crave that cramped tome
vehicle manufacturers not exceed a fleet emission
average NMOG rate of 0.075 g/mi for PCs and LDTs from 0 to 3,750 lbs. For 2007 and next agedness, the rules prohibit cramped publication vehicle manufacturers from exceeding a fleet emission customary NMOG appraisal of 0.075 g/mi for PCs and LDTs from 0 to 3,750 lbs. The rules bring fresh compliance duration for bitty and medium immensity vehicle manufacturers.
Intermediate Volume Manufacturers
