Glossary
- CA
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Competent Authority (of the European Commission)
- CAAM
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China Association of Automobile Manufacturers
- CAF
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Clean Air for Europe
- CAFE
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Corporate Average Fuel Economy
- CAGR
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Compound Annual Growth Rate
- CARACAL
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Competent Authorities for REACH Classification and Labelling
- CARB
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California Air Resources Board
- CBI
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Confidential Business Information
- CCD
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Combustion Chamber Deposit
- CCMC
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Comité des Constructeurs d’Automobiles du Marché Commun (obsolete, replaced by ACEA)
- CCS
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Cold Cranking Simulator
- CD
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Coefficient of Drag
- CDX
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Catalytic Dewaxing
- CEC
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Co-ordinating European Council for the Development of Performance Tests for Transportation Fuels, Lubricants & Other Fluids
- CEFIC
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European Chemical Industry Council
- CEN
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European Committee for Standardisation (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
- CEPS
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Central Europe Pipeline System
- CFC
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Chlorinated Fluorocarbon
- CFPP
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Cold Filter Plugging Point
- CGO
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Cracked Gas Oil
- CHP
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Combined Heat and Power
- CI
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Compression Ignition
- CIA
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Chemical Industries Association
- CIMAC
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International Council on Combustion Engines
- CLEPA
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European Association of Automotive Suppliers
- CLOG
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Category Life Oversight Group
- CLP
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Classification, Labelling and Packaging
- CMS
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Cummins Material Specification
- CNG
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Compressed Natural Gas
- COAT
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Caterpillar engine Oil Aeration Test
- COC
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Cleveland Open Cup (flash point)
- CONCAWE
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The Oil Companies European Organisation for Environmental and Health Protection. The acronym originally stood for ‘Conservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe’
- CoP
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Code of Practice
- CoRAP
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Community Rolling Action Programme
- COSHH
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Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
- cP
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Centipoise
- CPD
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Cloud Point Depressant
- CR
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Common Rail (diesel injection)
- CRC
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Co-ordinating Research Council (USA)
- CRT
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Continuously Regenerating Trap
- cSt
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Centistokes
- CSTCC
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Continuously Sliding Torque Converter Clutches
- CUNA
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Commissione Tecnica di Unificazione nell’Autoveicolo (Italy)
- CV
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Constant Velocity (joints)
- CVL
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Commercial Vehicle Lubricant
- CVT
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Continuously Variable Transmission
- CCCD
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Cold Chamber Chassis Dynamometer test
- CCUS
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carbon capture, utilisation and storage
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