Best Practice Guide

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ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER (OEM) Return to list of terms

Refers to the manufacturers of complete vehicles or heavy-duty engines, as contrasted with remanufacturers, converters, retrofitters, up-fitters, and repowering or rebuilding contractors who are overhauling engines, adapting or converting vehicles or engines obtained from the OEMs, or exchanging or rebuilding engines in existing vehicles.

Source: California Energy Commission