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17 AutoData | August 2018 There is still no official confirmation - it will depend on the text of the decree - but it seems that the minimum improvement required for energy efficiency will be 11%. The official measurement will be done from October 2021 to September 2022. This will be the mandatory goal for all companies, calculated from the weighted average sales per company. As in Inovar-Auto the reference adopted in the new program will be the megajoule per calculated kilometer versus the average mass. The value, therefore, is not absolute, varying from manufacturer to manufacturer. Regardless of the index that will be determined, a fact is that this will be better than the highest goal imposed by Inovar-Auto, the one that gave the right to an additional 2-point IPI discount and only two automakers managed to achieve it- Ford and General Motors. In other words And just like in Inovar-Auto, there will be two additional goals which will give an extra IPI discount of 1 or 2 points. However, unlike the previous program, this additional analysis will be made model by model, as well as its benefit, and no longer by each manufacturer’s weighted average. As the goal will be ambitious and part of the necessary evolutions to meet Inovar-Auto requirements has already been applied, such as the use of green tires and tri-cylinder engines, new developments in other areas such as body weight , with adoption of new materials, and the application of even more electronic components in powertrain are awaited. Even so, it is very likely that many manufacturers will promote launches of hybrid and electric vehicles, even if they are imported, as a way to lower their averages. According to calculations from Anfavea, Inovar- Auto brought savings of R$ 7 billion in fuel economy per year. The new energy efficiency challenge the lowest improvement required will be higher than the best index achieved today.