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Broad opposition to EPA, NHTSA proposed freeze of GHG, CAFE regs

Green Car Congress

In addition, EPA is also proposing to exclude CO 2 -equivalent emission improvements associated with air conditioning refrigerants and leakage (and, optionally, offsets for nitrous oxide and methane emissions) after model year 2020. This would result in an average fuel economy for passenger cars of 43.7 mpg and for light trucks of 31.3

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Toyota Open Road Blog ) 7/25/07 Toyota Motor Corp.

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