Metodología de etiquetado de vehículos nuevos en el Ecuador basado en la Ley de Eficiencia Energética

Abstract

The sale of new vehicles in Ecuador is a market that has been growing progressively, only in 2017 137615 were sold, of this total 123300 units correspond to light private vehicles, equivalent to 90% of total demand (Castillo et al, 2017), however, at the time of acquiring a vehicle there is no information on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions which is the main greenhouse gas, limiting the consumer to select the best alternative. For this reason, labelling vehicle energy efficiency for the benefit of the consumer translates into the use of the Organic Law on Consumers and the Energy Efficiency Law approved in 2019, which guarantee free information on the energy efficiency of vehicles. Consequently, this study proposes a methodology for labelling new vehicles in Ecuador. As results, it was determined that the selected label is the relative comparative label, used by the vast majority of countries ; As efficiency indicators on the label, the values of fuel consumption (km / L) and CO2 emissions (g / km) were defined. This model is applied to tourism category vehicles, trucks and all-terrain vehicles (SUVs) that operate with gasoline or diesel devices; It was determined that hybrid and electric vehicles will not be labeled with this model.