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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 165 / Monday, August 30, 2021 / Notices
A petition submitted on the lowemission vehicle LEV exemption basis must include the following information specified in 49 CFR 555.6c:
1 Substantiation that the vehicle is a low-emission vehicle;
2 Research, development, and testing documentation establishing that a temporary exemption would not unreasonably degrade the safety or impact protection of the vehicle;
i A detailed description of how the motor vehicle equipped with the lowemission engine would, if exempted, differ from one that complies with the standard;
ii If the petitioner is presently manufacturing a vehicle conforming to the standard, the results of tests conducted to substantiate certification to the standard;
iii The results of any tests conducted on the vehicle that demonstrate its failure to meet the standard, expressed as comparative performance levels; and iv Reasons why the failure to meet the standard does not unreasonably degrade the safety or impact protection of the vehicle.
3 Substantiation that a temporary exemption would facilitate the development or field evaluation of the vehicle; and 4 A statement of whether the petitioner intends to conform to the standard at the end of the exemption period; and 5 A statement that not more than 2,500 exempted vehicles will be sold in the U.S. in any 12-month period for which an exemption may be granted.

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II. Summary of Petition On September 16, 2020, in accordance with NHTSAs statutes and regulations, petitioners Polaris Industries Inc. and Goupil Industrie SA petitioned NHTSA
for a temporary exemption from the requirements of ten FMVSS on the basis that an exemption would make the development or field evaluation of a low-emission motor vehicle easier and would not unreasonably lower the safety level of that vehicle. On December 2, 2020, the petitioners submitted a supplemental petition that revised their original petition by withdrawing their request for an exemption from FMVSS No. 203
reducing the total number of standards in the exemption request to nine, and by revising their analysis concerning their request from an exemption from FMVSS No. 226. Public versions of the petitioners submissions can be found on regulations.gov in the docket stated in the header of this notice.

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a. Description of the Picnic-G6
The petitioners have requested an exemption to produce up to 100
specialized vehicles, which they intend to sell to Picnic, a grocery delivery company, which will use them to operate a grocery delivery service. The petitioners refer to the potentially exempted vehicles as Picnic-G6
vehicles. According to the petitioners, the Picnic-G6 is a modified version of the G6, an electric utility truck that they produce for the European market.5
Based on the information the petitioners provided, it appears that the G6 is a light truck with a GVWR of 2,600
kilograms approximately 5,732
pounds.6 According to the petitioners, a standard G6 vehicle has a maximum speed of 80 km/h 49.7 mph, and provides multiple other safety elements, including an acoustic alerting system to alert pedestrians to its presence, automatic headlamp and wiper activation, a robust steel chassis design, advanced crumple zone, and front-wheel drive. 7
The petitioners state that, unlike the a standard G6, the Picnic-G6 would be modified to have a maximum speed of 50 km/h 31 mph. In addition, all but 10 of the Picnic-G6 vehicles would have a single designated seating position, for the driver. The petitioners state that the 10 Picnic-G6 that also have a front passenger seat would be used to train drivers. None of the vehicles would have more than two seating positions.
The petitioners state that the Picnic-G6
would have a range of about 90 miles.
According to the petitioners, the vehicles will be modified to include a specialized grocery carrying box on the vehicles chassis after being sold to Picnic for use in its grocery delivery pilot.
In terms of how the vehicles will be operated, the petitioners state repeatedly throughout the petition that Picnic would operate the Picnic-G6
vehicles on lower-speed streets in dense urban and suburban areas. The petitioners also state that the vehicles would travel at low speeds due to the need to make frequent delivery stops.
The petitioners state that Picnic will train its employees to operate the 5 The petitioners have provided the G6s type approval certificate as Exhibit 1.
6 The full specifications of a baseline G6 can be found in Exhibit 2.
7 We note that the petitioners do not specify whether the acoustic alert system complies with FMVSS No. 141, Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles. FMVSS No. 141s requirements are more stringent than its European counterpart, UNECE Regulation 138, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Quiet Road Transport Vehicles with Regard to their Reduced Audibility.

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Picnic-G6 vehicles, and that the company will forbid private use of the vehicles and require that all occupants be age 16 or older. The petitioners also state that these restrictions will be stated in warning labels placed on the vehicles.
A more detailed explanation of the Picnic grocery delivery service, as well as illustrations of what the Picnic-G6
may look like, can be found in the petition.
b. Petitioners Explanation for Why the Picnic-G6 Would Be a Low-Emission Vehicle To be eligible for an exemption under the LEV basis, the Picnic-G6 must be considered an LEV under section 202 of the Clean Air Act 42 U.S.C. 7521 at the time the vehicle is manufactured, and must emit a level of regulated air pollutants that is in an amount significantly below one of those standards.8
According to the petitioners, the Picnic-G6 would be an all-electric vehicle that emits zero emissions, and therefore would be eligible for an exemption under the LEV basis.
c. Petitioners Explanation for Why Granting an Exemption Would Not Unreasonably Lower the Safety of the Picnic-G6
FMVSS No. 101, Controls and Displays & FMVSS No. 135, Light Vehicle Brake Systems To ensure that the driver is informed of brake system malfunctions, FMVSS
No. 101 and FMVSS No. 135 require that all light vehicles are required to have a telltale that informs the driver of various different types of issues with the vehicles braking system.
According to the petitioners, rather than displaying the word Brake to indicate brake system malfunctions, low brake fluid conditions, and the application of the parking brake, as required under S5.5.5 of FMVSS No.
135, the Picnic-G6 will display the ISO
brake symbol.9 The petitioners argue that this will not unreasonably lower safety because the Picnic-G6 will only be operated by trained Picnic employees who will understand the meaning of the ISO brake symbol. The petitioners further argue that NHTSA has, in the past, found that, in some instances, noncompliance with the brake system 8 49

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is not clear from the petition which ISO brake symbol would be used, or if the indicators would be combined. The various ISO brake symbols can be found through a search of ISOs Online Browsing Platform, https www.iso.org/obp/uihome. In addition, Exhibit 5 to the petition includes excerpts from the vehicle manual detailing the symbol.
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