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28 June 2018 | AutoData LEGISLATION » EURO 6 By Lúcia Camargo Nunes P8: TECHNOLOGY IS THE SMALLEST PROBLEM The technical development to fulfill the new rule Proconve P8, or Euro 6, in theory is ready. There is still political, strategic and market battles to go. S till without a defined date, but with a market estimate to start in 2023, the new Air Pollution Control Program for Automotive Vehicles – Provonve P8, based on the European rule Euro 6, for the containment of pollutant gases and noise emissions for heavy automobiles, it is expected to be concluded this year. For Paulo Jorge Antônio, director of AEA (Brazilian Automotive Engineering Association), “there is no way to know when the rule will be published. Some meetings happened, public consultation, drafts, everything with a series of entities contributions, but there wasn’t the next step. The expectation is that it happens in the second semester”. According to his analysis the techni- cal passage of Euro 5 to Euro 6 will be more complex than from Euro 3 to Euro 5, basically because the limits are naturally more restrict: “It is a new reality: Euro 5 demands only the engine test bench, while Euro 6 requires tests in the vehicle in a way that this vehicle fulfills the total engine’s bench test limit plus a half of it, so that during the daily use of this vehicle the level is maintained as expected. This is called PEMS, Portable Emissions Measurement System”. Although most automakers know very well this technology by applications existed in Europe and in the United Sta- tes adaptations will be necessary for the Brazilian reality in terms of product, cargo capacity and fuel: “Maybe not from scratch, Disclousure/MWM