Green Car Congress
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). Consumption per capita. Consumption per capita (gallons). The maximum consumption per capita (505 gallons) was reached in 1978.
The Truth About Cars
JUNE 8, 2023
In 2003 the InTech appeared in its only SUV usage, as the motivator of the new and doomed Lincoln Aviator. The Aviator would be Ford’s last official usage of the InTech engine line when it bowed out in 2005, but the V8 found a home in several other vehicles from smaller manufacturers.&
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2016
Nissan, in a 2003 paper, said that its multi-link geometry resolved those previous issues. 2005) “A Study Concerning the Noise and Vibration Characteristics of an Engine with Multiple-Link Variable Compression Ratio Mechanism,” SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-1134 doi: 10.4271/2005-01-1134. Takahashi, N., and Hiyoshi, R.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 24, 2016
The first production fuel cell vehicle, introduced to the US and Japan (December 2002). The first fuel cell vehicle to start and operate in sub-freezing temperatures (2003). The first fuel cell vehicle leased to an individual customer (July 2005).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Greater fuel efficiency, along with the use of cleaner fuels, can help mitigate these impacts, although increases in the numbers of cars and the distances driven threaten to overwhelm fuel economy advances. South Korea has improved its fuel economy by one third since 2003. —Michael Renner.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2009
The second-generation Prius launched in the fall of 2003 as a 2004 model year. By 2005 Toyota was producing more than 100,000 vehicles annually for the US market. With more than 107,000 sales in 2005, Prius became the third-best selling Toyota passenger car in the US after the Camry and Corolla. million Prius sold worldwide.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
Until mid-2005, Runkle was Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Delphi Corporation, where he was the senior executive responsible for deploying lean principles and integrating engineering, manufacturing and purchasing, and for leading major international customer accounts. —Don Runkle.
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