Heavy-duty Vehicle and Engine Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations

Marginal note:Vocational vehicles or tractors

• 12.2 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (4), every vocational vehicle, incomplete vocational vehicle, tractor and incomplete tractor whose main assembly is completed after the coming into force of this section must be equipped with a heavy-duty engine that conforms to the following standards:

  • (a) the standards set out in the On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations that are applicable to heavy-duty engines as defined in subsection 1(1) of those Regulations that are of the following model year:

    • (i) in the case of a vehicle whose main assembly is completed before January 1, 2021, the model year of the engine with which the vocational vehicle, incomplete vocational vehicle, tractor or incomplete tractor is equipped, and

    • (ii) in the case of a vehicle whose main assembly is completed on or after January 1, 2021, the model year that corresponds to

      • (A) the calendar year during which the main assembly of the vocational vehicle, incomplete vocational vehicle, tractor or incomplete tractor in which the engine is installed is completed, or

      • (B) if the conditions set out in paragraph 4(3)(a) or subparagraph 4(3)(b)(i) or (ii) are met, the calendar year before the calendar year during which the main assembly of the vocational vehicle, incomplete vocational vehicle, tractor or incomplete tractor in which the engine is installed is completed; and

  • (b) the standards set out in these Regulations that are applicable to engines that are of the following model year:

    • (i) in the case of a vehicle whose main assembly is completed before January 1, 2021, the model year of the engine with which the vocational vehicle, incomplete vocational vehicle, tractor or incomplete tractor is equipped, and

    • (ii) in the case of a vehicle whose main assembly is completed on or after January 1, 2021, the model year that corresponds to

      • (A) the calendar year during which the main assembly of the vocational vehicle, incomplete vocational vehicle, tractor or incomplete tractor in which the engine is installed is completed, or

      • (B) if the conditions set out in paragraph 4(3)(a) or subparagraph 4(3)(b)(i) or (ii) are met, the calendar year before the calendar year during which the main assembly of the vocational vehicle, incomplete vocational vehicle, tractor or incomplete tractor in which the engine is installed is completed.

• Marginal note:Election

  (2) A company may elect not to comply with subsection (1) for a vocational vehicle, incomplete vocational vehicle, tractor or incomplete tractor if the company reports this election in its end of model year report in accordance with section 48 and the vehicle’s engine has previously been sold to a first retail purchaser and

  • (a) has not reached the end of its useful life since its original date of manufacture;

  • (b) has accumulated less than 160 935 km (100,000 miles) of operation since its original date of manufacture;

  • (c) less than three years have passed since its original date of manufacture; or

  • (d) is of the 2010 model year or a subsequent model year.

• Marginal note:Standards — engine installed in vehicle

  (3) The engine referred to in subsection (2) must conform to

  • (a) the standards set out in the On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations that are applicable to heavy-duty engines as defined in subsection 1(1) of those Regulations that are of the model year corresponding to the engine’s original date of manufacture; and

  • (b) the standards set out in these Regulations that are applicable to engines that are of the model year corresponding to the engine’s original date of manufacture.

• Marginal note:Hybrid vehicles — alternate engine standards

  (4) In the case of vocational vehicles, incomplete vocational vehicles, tractors and incomplete tractors that are or are to become hybrid vehicles whose engine provides energy to the vehicle’s energy storage features, if there are no engines on the market that conform to the standards referred to in subsection (1) and that have the physical or performance characteristics necessary for the operation of the vehicle, a company may, for any given model year up to and including the 2027 model year, elect to equip up to 100 such vehicles with a heavy-duty engine that, instead of conforming to the standards referred to in that subsection, conforms to the alternative standards set out in section 10(g) or 11(g), as the case may be, of Title 40, chapter I, subchapter C, part 86, subpart A, of the CFR.