TerraNova adapted end-to-end for India CAFE — onboarding, dashboard across CAFE-II and CAFE-III, decarb-lever planning under super-credits, Compliance Manager projections, and the 5-year OEM-to-OEM credit-market view.
TerraNova for CAFE is Climate Decode's compliance carbon platform adapted for India PV OEMs. It takes an OEM's product portfolio, computes the fleet-average position under both CAFE-II and CAFE-III, projects forward through FY32, lets you build and compare decarbonisation scenarios, generates the BEE submission file, and gives you a peer-OEM and market view that updates as new policy developments come in. The same platform is what an OEM treasury team uses to model credit-market exposure, and what an OEM strategy team uses to sequence BEV / SHEV / off-cycle investments.
The design intent
CAFE compliance has historically been a once-a-year filing exercise built in Excel. TerraNova turns it into a continuously updated operating picture — one that survives the WLTP transition, super-credit changes, and the new credit market without having to rebuild the spreadsheet every quarter.
See TerraNova for CAFE in action with your own fleet data.
Book a 30-min demo →Every OEM starts with a 4-step wizard that establishes the baseline position. The output is a populated dashboard plus the working scenario engine for the Decarb and Compliance Manager modules.
The Dashboard module is the home screen. A regime selector at the top toggles between CAFE-II (current), CAFE-III (future), and Both (side-by-side). KPI rows update conditionally on regime.
The Decarb module is a lever-based scenario builder. The catalog has 18 levers organised by family. Click cards to add or remove from the active plan; the MAC curve and trajectory chart update live.
Each lever generates a MAC curve point — cost per gramme of CO2 reduction. The Decarb module sorts levers by MAC and recommends a ranked portfolio that closes the deficit at lowest aggregate cost. The user can override the recommendation manually.
Why MAC-ranking matters
A naive approach is to buy credits to close any deficit. But credits at ₹4,500/g-unit are expensive if a SHEV upgrade closes the same gap at ₹1,500/g-unit. MAC ranking surfaces the cheapest path to compliance.
The Compliance Manager module shows the full FY26-FY32 ledger with year-by-year margin, opportunity (surplus value), liability (penalty / credit-purchase cost), and compliance status.
Compliance Manager Walkthrough
Walk through the BAU vs With-plan toggle, block I and II averaging cards, and the year-by-year penalty explainer with our team.
Schedule the walkthrough →Market Watch is the module that surfaces what is happening outside the OEM's own fleet — competitor positions, news, OTC trades, and the 5-year forward market model.
Some users (treasury, audit, methodology committees) need the math in a form they can audit cell-by-cell. The CAFE3-Market-Model.xlsx companion is 8 sheets, 1,875 formulas, zero errors — every formula in the workbook references the master Levers sheet so any assumption change propagates everywhere.
| Sheet | Purpose |
|---|---|
| README | Methodology, color conventions, source citations, model limitations |
| Levers | 38 master toggles in 9 sections — every formula references these |
| Reg Registry | CAFE-II/III target curve, block structure, penalty schedule (linked from Levers) |
| OEM Inputs | 15 OEMs × static (curb kg, ICE MIDC, off-cycle) + per-year (BEV%, SHEV%, units) |
| OEM Calc | 75 rows (15 OEMs × 5 years) full computation across 26 columns each |
| Market S&D | Annual aggregates + 5-yr totals + 6 headline metrics |
| Decarb Levers | 18 tenant-specific compliance levers with Active 1/0 toggle |
| Tenant Ledger | FY26-FY32 with/without plan, 7-yr summary metrics (e.g. Tata Ledger) |
The Levers sheet has 9 sections: macro scenario, super-credit baseline, test cycle (MIDC→WLTP), mass curve, market prices, penalty structure, banked supply value, pooling toggle, and the super-credit phase-out schedule. The last one is the lever that produces the EU phase-out scenario described in Part 6.
Every common OEM question maps to a specific TerraNova feature or Excel lever. Below are the top thirteen.
| OEM question | TerraNova feature | Location |
|---|---|---|
| "Where do I sit today under CAFE-II?" | Dashboard (Current regime) | Regime selector → Current |
| "Where will I sit under CAFE-III WLTP?" | Dashboard (Future regime), trajectory chart | Regime selector → Future |
| "What if super-credits get haircut?" | Excel year-by-year super-credit schedule | Levers sheet section 9 |
| "What if BEV ramp lags?" | Excel scenario engine + Market Watch What-if | Levers BEV multiplier; What-if sandbox |
| "What's my optimal capex allocation?" | Decarb planner MAC-ranked portfolio | Decarb tab |
| "How do I file with BEE?" | One-click BEE submission export | Dashboard export panel |
| "What will the credit market look like?" | Market Watch 5-year S&D model | Market Watch, Excel Market S&D |
| "What are peers doing?" | Market Watch peer position table | Market Watch peer tab |
| "What policy updates have I missed?" | Market Watch news feed | Market Watch news section |
| "What if pooling gets allowed?" | Excel pooling lever | Levers section 8 |
| "What if WLTP gets delayed?" | Excel WLTP delay lever | Levers section 3 |
| "BAU vs with-plan position?" | Compliance Manager projection charts | CompMgr BarLineChart |
| "Penalty exposure if I do nothing?" | Tenant Ledger penalty column | Excel Tenant Ledger + CompMgr |
The single most important lever
The super-credit phase-out schedule (Excel Levers section 9) is the single most consequential lever in the entire system. Setting it to 3.0× flat produces base case; setting it to a 3.0→2.0→1.0 schedule produces the EU phase-out scenario. Every downstream output in the platform is conditional on this one assumption.
We'll run through your OEM's position under both regimes, walk you through the decarb planner, and show how the credit-market model handles each scenario.
Part 1 — CAFE Primer · Part 2 — CAFE-III Mechanics · Part 6 — The Credit Market Modelled
Primary regulatory sources and verified analysis cited above.
From per-OEM cost exposure to the 5-year credit-market view, Climate Decode helps Indian passenger-vehicle OEMs sequence the CAFE-III response with finance-grade clarity.