VCA's Point of Sale (POS) System

To enable a manufacturer's UK dealer network - or independent non-franchised dealer to provide accurate and up to date environmental data in a label and/or poster form, VCA have developed an on-line system using data from the New Car Fuel Consumption / CO₂ Database.

The system has a number of features, but is principally an easy to use, affordable solution for producing labels and posters, providing a full audit trail enabling manufacturers and/or VCA to track actions.

From July of 2005, many manufacturers will have switched to the new style "Comparative" label that shows the applicable VED band for the car, the CO₂ figure and estimated annual running costs for the vehicle. The new label is intended to be familiar to consumers as it mirrors important aspects of the design and colour-coding of the energy efficiency labels that now appears on most 'white goods', such as refrigerators.

VCA's Point of Sale or "POS" system is the ideal solution for producing this new style label. More information on POS is contained in the following PDF document: "POS Guidance (PDF 330.5KB)".

Example of the new style label (effective from 1 April 2010)

(an Alternative text description of the label is available here)

Efficiency label for new cars

A larger version of the latest label can be downloaded here: http://carfueldata.direct.gov.uk/downloads/default.aspx (opens in a new browser window)

Manufacturers wishing to find out more about our POS system (or obtain a full suite of labels) are invited to contact us on +44 (0)117 9524109, or by e-mailing us at fuel@vca.gov.uk.