Fuel economy standards could save Malaysia 16.2 billion liters of petrol by 2030

Introducing substance system standards volition importantly lend to substance savings and emissions mitigation successful Malaysia, according to caller planetary probe by Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

In the past 20 years, the transport sector successful Malaysia has consistently consumed much than 40 percent of the country's full vigor usage with onshore transport—mainly backstage cars—using the most.

In a insubstantial published successful the diary Sustainability, Distinguished Professor Teuku Meurah Indra Mahlia and Ph.D. pupil Ahmad Zuhairi Muzakir, some from UTS, on with Professor Eng Hwa Yap from XJTLU, recovered that if Malaysia adopted a fuel system standards argumentation akin to those implemented internationally, it would supply immense savings successful substance depletion and trim c emissions.

"In Malaysia, substance depletion by backstage cars is not governed by a nationalist argumentation connected substance system standards, which is successful opposition to galore developed economies," Muzakir says.

"We explored what the interaction of adopting a substance system standards argumentation connected rider vehicles would beryllium compared to what it mightiness look similar if the state continued concern arsenic usual.

"Our information showed that the deficiency of substance system standards successful Malaysia has resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of perchance tremendous savings successful fuel consumption and emanation mitigation."

Forecasting a five-year play from 2025 to 2030, the findings suggest Malaysia would prevention 16.2 cardinal liters of petrol, oregon much than 12,300 ktoe (kilo tons of lipid equivalent), if substance system standards were implemented. In addition, the standards would trim astatine slightest 37.6 cardinal tons of CO2-equivalent greenhouse state emissions.

Muzakir says the probe tin assistance usher officials and policymakers successful Malaysia to spot the benefits of the substance system standards and power their determination to instrumentality 1 successful the future.

"Fuel system standards person been talked astir successful galore planetary platforms, including Malaysia, but truthful acold the state has been hesitant to instrumentality it," helium says.

"Transportation plays an important relation successful economic growth successful galore countries—particularly processing countries successful the Asian context. That's wherefore determination is immoderate reluctance to present policies that person a perceived economical risk.

"Our probe highlights successful existent presumption what countries similar Malaysia person to summation by putting successful spot substance system standards. We anticipation that our modeling tin beryllium utilized for different countries successful the portion arsenic good to enactment them successful deciding to instrumentality akin standards.

"Governments person a work to their radical arsenic good arsenic the satellite astir them. If our nations enactment responsibly—in this instance, by implementing fuel economy standards—it not lone helps the environment. It besides helps the carnal wellness of radical done the simplification successful emissions."

Muzakir is supervised by Professor Yap, Dean of the School of Intelligent Manufacturing Ecosystem and the School of Robotics astatine XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang) and Distinguished Professor Mahlia of UTS.

Professor Yap says planetary probe projects that transcend accepted borders and world disciplines are captious successful addressing analyzable challenges successful today's world.

"When we look astatine problems from a systematic perspective, we tin intelligibly spot everything is intertwined. Every portion oregon component, each strategy oregon subsystem, are each related to each other," helium says.

"There's a batch much to beryllium done successful tackling problems similar this, wherever economical and biology costs indispensable beryllium balanced.

"No 1 enactment oregon government, nary 1 section oregon enactment tin spell it alone. We volition prosper lone if we enactment together."

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More information: Ahmad Zuhairi Muzakir et al, The Way towards an Energy Efficient Transportation by Implementation of Fuel Economy Standards: Fuel Savings and Emissions Mitigation, Sustainability (2021). DOI: 10.3390/su13137348