The Ministry of Transport issued Circular 53/2024/TT-BGTVT regulating the classification of road vehicles and identification signs of motor vehicles using clean energy, green energy, and environmental friendliness. The Circular will take effect from January 1, 2025.
Article 9 of this Circular stipulates the classification of motor vehicles according to energy used as follows:
1. Motor vehicles with engines that use only gasoline or diesel fuel;
2. Environmentally friendly motor vehicles are motor vehicles that use energy or technology to help reduce direct carbon emissions during operation compared to conventional motor vehicles specified in Clause 1 of this Article (such as vehicles using CNG fuel, light hybrid electric vehicles MHEV, fully hybrid electric vehicles FHEV or SHEV, plug-in hybrid vehicles other than PHEV);
3. Motor vehicles using clean energy, green energy, and environmentally friendly are motor vehicles that do not directly emit carbon when operating (such as pure electric vehicles PEV or BEV, pure fuel cell electric vehicles PFCEV or FCEV, vehicles using hydrogen fuel).
Article 10 of the Circular stipulates the identification signs of motor vehicles using clean energy, green energy, and environmentally friendly energy as follows:
Motor vehicles using clean energy, green energy, and environmentally friendly energy are determined according to the provisions of Clause 3, Article 9 of this Circular. Signs to identify motor vehicles using clean energy, green energy, and environmentally friendly energy when participating in traffic are identified by inspection stamps with a green background.
Details of the stamp sample are specified in the Circular of the Minister of Transport regulating the order and procedures for inspection, exemption from first inspection, modification of motor vehicles and specialized motorbikes; order and procedures for inspection of exhaust emissions of motorbikes and mopeds.
