California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 9 - Off-Road Vehicles and Engines Pollution Control Devices › Article 1 - Small off-Road Engines › Section 2408.1 - Emission Reduction Credits - Zero-Emission Equipment Credits Averaging, Banking, and Trading Provisions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				  Applicability. The requirements of section 2408.1 are applicable to all small
				  off-road equipment produced in the 2010 and later model years. Equipment
				  certified to the voluntary standards in subsection
				  2403(b)(2),
				  or equipment that receive funding through any emission reduction programs, are
				  not eligible for participation in the zero-emission equipment credit averaging,
				  banking, and trading program. Participation in this program is voluntary, but
				  if a manufacturer elects to participate, it must do so in compliance with the
				  provisions set forth in section 2408.1. The provisions of section 2408.1 are
				  limited to HC+NOx (or NMHC+NOx,
				  as applicable) and Particulate Matter emissions.
(b) General provisions.
(1) Zero-emission equipment credits may be
				  used to offset emissions for an engine family, if the engine family is either a
				  carry-over engine family for which the original Executive Order was issued for
				  the 2009 or earlier model year, or is certified to comply with applicable
				  emissions standards for 2009 and subsequent model year small off-road
				  engines.
(2) A manufacturer must
				  only include in its calculation of zero-emission equipment credit generation,
				  zero-emission small off-road equipment that are sold and used in
				  California.
(3) For an engine
				  family using zero-emission equipment credits to compensate for negative
				  certification emission credits, a manufacturer may, at its option, include its
				  entire production of that engine family in its calculation of credit usage for
				  a given model year.
(4) A
				  manufacturer of zero-emission small off-road equipment that wishes to generate
				  zero-emission equipment credits must certify zero-emission equipment engine
				  families at Family Emission Limits (FEL) of zero grams per kilowatt-hour.
(A) A manufacturer of zero-emission small
				  off-road equipment which certifies an engine family as a zero-emission
				  equipment engine family may generate positive zero-emission equipment credits
				  for averaging, banking, or trading, or a combination thereof.
(B) Except as noted in section
				  2408.1(b)(4)(C), an engine family certified as a zero-emission equipment engine
				  family must meet the following durability requirements:
1. 300 hours for zero-emission small off-road
				  equipment that functions and performs equivalently to equipment using
				  spark-ignition engines with a displacement of less than or equal to
				  80cc,
2. 500 hours for
				  zero-emission small off-road equipment that functions and performs equivalently
				  to equipment using spark-ignition engines with a displacement between 80cc and
				  225cc.
(C) An engine
				  family that is certified as a zero-emission equipment engine family, but cannot
				  achieve the full durability period, may generate 75 percent of the
				  zero-emission equipment credits if the zero-emission equipment engine family
				  can meet a minimum of 75 percent up to 99 percent of the durability period. The
				  amount of zero-emission credits would be calculated as 75 percent of the result
				  obtained using the equation in section 2408.1(f). This allowance will remain in
				  effect through the 2012 model year, after which all zero-emission small
				  off-road equipment will be required to meet the full durability requirement
				  specified in subsection 2408.1(b)(4)(B).
(D) Minimum professional-level requirements
				  for zero-emission small off-road equipment.
1.
				  An engine family certified as a zero-emission equipment engine family must be
				  able to operate continuously, allowing for any battery exchanges, for a minimum
				  of one hour and meet the minimum specifications indicated in Table 1.
Table 1. Minimum Professional Level Requirements for
					 Zero-Emission Equipment Eligibility.
Product
								Type
Durability Test Power
								Load
Minimum Supplied Battery Capacity
								(Using a maximum of four individual batteries)
Minimum Cutter
								Speed
Other Performance Requirements or
								Parameters
Chainsaw
0.6 kW
295 Wh
8,000 revolutions/min (rpm)
Minimum 12-inch bar length (305 millimeter
								(mm))
Trimmer/Brushcutter
0.5 kW
295 Wh
Minimum tip speed of 20,000 feet/min(102
								meters/sec) with double line extension and line diameter of 0.080 inch
								(2mm)
Minimum cutting swath of 12 inch
								(305mm)
Hedge Clipper
0.4 kW
180 Wh
1,400 strokes/min
*
Minimum 20-inch (508mm) cutter length
*
Double reciprocating
*
Minimum 0.709 inch (18mm) tooth opening
Blower (Handheld)
See "Other Performance Requirements or
								Parameters"
395 Wh
-
*
Exit velocity multiplied by volume (measured at the
								discharge pipe at the same time) shall be 47,000
								miles-ft3/hour-min. (3,564
								meter-meter3/hour-min.)
*
The blower rating must be based on a measurement
								with single discharge pipe using the American National Standards Institute
								(ANSI) B175.2 test procedure.
Blower (Backpack)
See "Other Performance Requirements or
								Parameters"
790 Wh
-
*
Exit velocity multiplied by volume (measured at the
								discharge pipe at the same time) shall be 68,000
								miles-ft3/hour-min. (4,760
								meter-meter3/hour-min)
*
The blower rating must be based on a measurement
								with single discharge pipe using the ANSI B175.2 test procedure.
Edger
0.5 kW
295 Wh
6,500 rpm
-
Split Boom System
0.5 kW
295 Wh
6,500 rpm
-
Walk-Behind Lawnmower
3.0 kW
1,400 Wh
-
*
Minimum battery capacity to operate one hour over a
								five-mode duty cycle (with no idle mode) at 3,060 rpm
*
A minimum cutting width of 21 inch, and the maximum
								speed defined by the ANSI B71.1 blade tip speed safety
								requirements.
2.
				  Durability testing must be performed in an equipment configuration that is
				  representative of actual operation of the equipment by the end user (i.e.,
				  using standard battery package cycling).
3. The minimum battery durability/life cycle
				  is based on the maximum durability power specified and the equivalent engine
				  duty cycle (i.e., handheld equipment is 85 percent at 100 percent load rated
				  speed, and 15 percent at minimum load idle speed; a walk-behind lawn mower is a
				  five-mode test cycle [without an idle mode] at 3,060 rpm).
(E) In order to generate zero-emission
				  equipment credits, manufacturers of battery-powered zero-emission small
				  off-road equipment must provide the ultimate purchaser with a standard battery
				  package, as defined in section
				  2401.
(F)
1. A
				  manufacturer of zero-emission small off-road equipment must include in the
				  certification application, a description of an operational sequence over the
				  eight-hour workday for the applicable zero-emission equipment engine
				  family.
2. Total time for battery
				  exchanges during an eight-hour workday for an engine family certified as a
				  zero-emission equipment engine family must not exceed the total refueling time
				  for that of an equivalently performing professional-level gasoline-powered
				  piece of equipment during an eight-hour period of operation.
(G) Manufacturers must demonstrate
				  compliance under the averaging, banking, and trading provisions for a
				  particular model year within 270 days after the end of the model
				  year.
(H) Replacement batteries
				  cannot be used to generate zero-emission equipment credits.