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EPA to maintain light-duty vehicle GHG standards unchanged through 2025

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The standards are projected to result in average fleet-wide consumer fuel economy sticker values of 36 miles per gallon (mpg) by model year 2025, 10 mpg higher than the current fleet average. mpg-e (if all reductions were achieved exclusively through fuel economy improvements). Click to enlarge.

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Center for Automotive Research calls long-run economic risk to auto industry of mandating permanent fuel economy standards very serious; recommends periodic reviews

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Plug-in hybrids dominate market penetration in 2025 under CAR scenario IV (62 mpg CAFE standard). the EPA/NHTSA Technical Assessment Report for the upcoming CAFE regulations: 47, 51, 56 and 62 mpg. The results for each fuel economy scenario are: Scenario I: (47 mpg CAFE standard, 37.6 The 47 mpg target is equivalent to a 70.9%

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Elio Motors unveils engine prototype for 84 mpg highway 3-wheeler

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Elio Motors, the start-up developing a $6,800, 84-mpg- (2.8l/100 100 km) three-wheeled vehicle with a target date of 2016, unveiled its engine prototype: a 0.9-liter, We are literally trying to reinvent the auto industry, so why go the conventional route and rework someone else’s engine? Current prototype of the Elio.

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EPA proposes leaving light-duty vehicle GHG standards for MY 2022-2025 unchanged

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The final standards are projected result in an average industry fleet-wide level of 163 grams/mile of CO 2 in model year 2025, which is equivalent to 54.5 The public comment period for this action begins today and will end on 30 December 2016. l/100 km), if achieved exclusively through fuel economy improvements.

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Gas Mileage Champs: 10 Cars That Get 40 MPG Highway Or More

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Automakers were asked to increase the fuel efficiency of their fleets by almost 8 miles per gallon between 2012 and 2016. Many inside and outside the auto industry questioned whether it could be done. Since then.

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T&E concludes that diesel cars emit more CO2 on a full lifecycle basis than gasoline cars

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mpg US) and 7.1 mpg US), respectively. This “diesel bonus” cost national budgets almost €32 billion in lost tax revenue in 2016 alone. This is because the auto industry could not be fully responsible for their targets otherwise. T&E used the latest real-world fuel consumption figures for diesel and gasoline: 6.3

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Onslaught Of Mercedes-Benz Compacts Coming In Next Five Years

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Governments around the world are bowing to public pressure to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases their respective countries produce, and more often than not, the first sector they look at is the auto industry. mpg fleet-wide fuel economy standard for 2016 (42 mpg for cars and 26 mpg for. Here in the U.S.

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