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DECEMBER 8, 2021
Not coincidentally, the first Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for new cars and light trucks became effective with 1978 model-year vehicles. Total consumption (millions of gallons). Therefore, the table below shows the consumptions per capita for selected years between 1965 and 2020. Consumption per capita (gallons).
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
The SwRI team will report that the brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) at 2000 rpm 2 bar BMEP improved from 385 g/kW-h in the series production state to 330 g/kW-h; the lowest BSFC for the engine was 212 g/kWh compared to 236 g/kW-h for the series engine. PSA has been a member of the HEDGE consortium (now at HEDGE-III ) since 2004.
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JUNE 22, 2017
This price difference, or spread, has been generally increasing since 2000. On the demand side, the premium gasoline share of total motor gasoline sales has steadily increased in recent years, reaching a high of nearly 12% in August 2016—the highest share since 2004. Source: US EIA. Click to enlarge.
The Truth About Cars
JUNE 8, 2023
Panoz also used the engine in the AIV roadster between 1997 and 1999, and in the more popular (and ugly) Esperante from 2000 to 2009. Even more exotic use arrived with the Qvale Mangusta in 2000, the coupe that was originally to herald the return of deTomaso.
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2009
The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. The retrofitted hybrid trucks are projected to improve fuel economy by 44%, decrease particulate matter by 96% and reduce NO x emissions by 75% compared to the standard FedEx Express delivery truck.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2009
Toyota launched of the Prius in late 1997 in the Japan market, and in the US in July 2000. The second-generation Prius launched in the fall of 2003 as a 2004 model year. The first-generation US Prius was a low-volume vehicle (12,000 produced annually). By 2005 Toyota was producing more than 100,000 vehicles annually for the US market.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Landfill emissions are also emerging as a policy challenge, having risen every single year since 2004 in California, and shooting up 7.4% Noel Perry, founder of Next 10.
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