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GFEI report finds improvements in average new LDV fuel economy lagging pace required to cut 50% fuel use for new cars worldwide by 2030; policy focus should be on emerging markets

Green Car Congress

per year from 2005 when the average was 8.0 per year between 2005 and 2008. Fuel economy improvement (reflected as a reduction in g CO 2 /km) has been continuous and significant between 2005 and 2011 for most countries. average annual improvement rate between 2005 and 2011. l/100 km (32.7 l/100 km (29.4 Source: GFEI.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., See our frequent comments at our news archive. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead!

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