UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

NATIONAL VEHICLE AND FUEL EMISSIONS LABORATORY

2000 TRAVERWOOD DRIVE

ANN ARBOR, MI  48105-2498

									     OFFICE OF

									AIR AND RADIATION

1/28/16

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT: Test Procedure Review with Cummins, Volvo, Navistar, Paccar,
Daimler Eaton and Allison

FROM: James Sanchez

TO:  Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Fuel Efficiency Standards
for Medium- and

Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles - Phase 2 - Docket EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827

This memo documents communication on January 28, 2016 between
representatives of Cummins, Volvo, Navistar, Paccar, Eaton, Allison,
Daimler, Hino, EMA and EPA to discuss heavy-duty test procedures
proposed in the Phase 2 greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for
heavy-duty vehicles notice of proposed rulemaking.  The draft document
is attached.

Participants: 

Allison – Mike Howenstein

Cummins – Jackie Yeager

Daimler – Anirban Sett, Gerald Freitag, David Kayes, Inderpal Singh

Eaton – 

EMA – Tim Blubaugh

EPA – Houshun Zhang

Hino – 

Navistar – Dave Gardner, Laura Ricart, Matt Hunkler

PACCAR – Mark Malowicki

Volvo – Marc Miller, Tony Greszler, Yuesheng He

Discussion and follow-up items (with owner's name in bold): 

Open questions/work planning – All 

Updated per attached document

PACCAR planning to run test soon but found issue with speed/load cycle
generated by GEM

EPA looking for mfr input on vehicles to be excluded (for example,
vehicles geared to run only below 55 mph)

GEM has capability to accept more than 8-9 map points if that is allowed

Other topics – All 

GEM 

Debugging version includes regression model for fuel mass as a function
of N/V and cycle work

Road grade 

Houshun requested Volvo to look at mass of 70k, 60k, 0 payload – Marc 

Daimler is in process of doing their own analysis

Topics for future calls: 

(2/11) N13 365 results – Houshun

(TBD) Impact of mass in road grade analysis – Volvo

(2/11) SEA process – All 

