Sentences with phrase «u.s. vehicle fleet»

California officials said there's a reason the industry opposes its efforts: While the new federal standards would raise fuel economy to 31.6 miles per gallon by 2015, California's rules would require the U.S. vehicle fleet to get 36 miles per gallon by 2015.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.

Front crash prevention is part of a larger group of crash avoidance features spreading through the U.S. vehicle fleet.

Not exact matches

The corporate rate cut would give U.S. transportation companies of all sizes more money to upgrade their fleets with fuel - efficient vehicles.

In a world of driverless cars, U.S. auto sales would plummet, vehicle ownership falls 50 % and opportunities in fleet management, tech and mapping arise.

At present, its U.S. presence is limited to producing buses and selling fleet vehicles such as taxis.

The three governments should also commit to a growing percentage of electric vehicles in their own fleets, and support states and provinces that make similar commitments — as U.S. states and British Columbia have already done via the Pacific Coast Collaborative.

Executives at GM have expressed frustration that comparisons of monthly U.S. sales results among rival automakers are distorted by short - term discount programs, and by differences in strategy for selling vehicles in bulk to rental car fleets.

Commercial trucking companies should be required to install speed - capping technology in all vehicles in their fleets, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said.

Commercial trucking companies should be required to install speed - capping technology in all vehicles in their fleets, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday.

And if hybrids become cheap enough «just replacing 1 percent of [U.S.] vehicle fleet translates into $ 4 billion in [consumer] savings, $ 80 billion in oil we don't import and 50 million tons of CO2 reduction.»

One is that replacing utility power is one thing, but [a] lot of the total energy in the country goes in transportation, so another big assumption is that you'd largely have to convert the U.S. passenger fleet to hybrid plug - in cars and trucks, all that, so that essentially you are fueling vehicles with electricity as well.

Stanton hopes to achieve close alignment between the Tier III rules and California's Level III standards, giving the industry the chance to sell one fleet of vehicles across the entire U.S., as the new CAFE rules promise.

Chrysler plans to decrease its rental - car sales as a percentage of its overall 18 % U.S. fleet mix, as well as improve margins on some of its vehicle lines, the automaker's chief financial officer says during a conference call to discuss third - quarter financial results.

Police forces around the U.S. and Canada are choosing to fill their vehicle fleets with SUVs about as often, or in some cases more often, than sedans because of the amount of gear they can carry, reports Automotive News.

While Tavares has indicated PSA plans a return to the U.S. market, he's said it's a ten - year project that will involve the company first trading as a mobility provider — running a fleet of someone else's vehicles.

All vehicles sold by an auto maker must meet a U.S. EPA Federal fleet average of Tier 2 Bin 5.

Though we can't say exactly what kind of function the City has as a part of this fleet, we know that it has wheels on the ground in the U.S. Though this variation of one of our favorite vehicles offers less interior volume, it will be nice to once again have a truly compact sedan in the Honda lineup.

Not only was the CLA the smallest and most affordable vehicle in the Mercedes - Benz fleet, it was also the first front - wheel drive model the brand has sold in the U.S..

Production of the Focus Electric began in December 2011 and the vehicle is already being used in a few fleets around the U.S. Expect to see the Focus models showing up at your local dealer sans tailpipe sometime in the first half of 2012 if you live in the California, New York, or New Jersey markets.

As automated vehicle technology continues to spread throughout the U.S. passenger vehicle fleet expect more steps in this direction.

«We have strategically decided to reduce car production rather than increase incentive spending or dump vehicles into daily rental fleets, like some of our competitors,» said Kurt McNeil, U.S. vice president of Sales Operations.

FORD TRANSIT SALES GROW IN SEPTEMBER; FORD»S OVERALL U.S. SALES DOWN 8 PERCENT VERSUS YEAR - AGO Ford Transit U.S. sales increase 6 percent versus year ago, with 10,799 vans sold September marks F - Series» best retail sales month of the year; total Ford F - Series sales of 67,809 down 3 percent Total U.S. sales of 204,447 vehicles down 8 percent from a year ago; retail sales down 4 percent and fleet decline 21 percent DEARBORN, Mich., Oct 3, 2016 — Ford Transit vans U.S. sales grew 6 percent last month with 10,799 vans sold.

FORD F - SERIES, SUVS, LINCOLN POST GAINS IN FEBRUARY; FORD»S OVERALL U.S. SALES DOWN 4 PERCENT VERSUS YEAR AGO Ford brand SUVs post record February results, with 68,820 vehicles sold Ford F - Series U.S. sales increase 9 percent versus a year ago, with 65,956 pickups sold Lincoln sales increase 9 percent, with gains coming from MKC, MKX and all - new Continental Ford Motor Company total U.S. sales of 208,440 vehicles are down 4 percent from a year ago; retail sales are down 3 percent, while fleet sales decline 5 percent DEARBORN, Mich., March 1, 2017 — Overall Ford Motor Company U.S. sales totaled 208,440 vehicles in February, a 4 percent decline versus a year ago.

Based on the FCX Concept that has impressed journalists at multiple test drive events over the past year, this all - new fuel cell vehicle will be marketed to fleet and retail customers in the U.S. and Japan beginning in 2008.

In fact, some of the most iconic vehicles in U.S. fleets allow you to open up the roof and feel the sun on your face.

By 2030, within 10 years of regulatory approval of autonomous vehicles (AVs), 95 % of U.S. passenger miles traveled will be served by on - demand autonomous electric vehicles owned by fleets, not individuals, in a new business model we call «transport - as - a-service» (TaaS).

Given that the U.S. car fleet is likely to have grown to over 400 million vehicles by then, we may still end up using more oil in the future than we do today in a business as usual scenario.

A new study finds that «off - peak» electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 70 % percent of the U.S. light - duty vehicle fleet, if they were plug - in hybrid electrics.

A new study (Part 1, Part 2) for the Department of Energy finds that «off - peak» electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 70 % percent of the U.S. light - duty vehicle (LDV) fleet, if they were plug - in hybrid electrics.

Yet compared to most countries» fleets, vehicles in the U.S. today still have much lower average MPG, higher per capita petroleum use and higher greenhouse gas production.

The National Commission on Energy Policy reported in December that, if fleet mileage in the U.S. rises to 40 mpg — somewhat below the current European Union fleet average for new vehicles of 42 mpg and well below the current Japanese average of 47 mpg - then as switchgrass yields improve modestly to around 10 tons / acre it would take only 30 million acres of land to produce sufficient cellulosic ethanol to fuel half the U.S. passenger fleet.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

The U.S. federal government has well over half a million vehicles, making up the largest fleet in the nation.

ABSTRACT The current U.S. electric grid is underutilized and could generate and deliver the necessary energy to power the majority of the U.S. light - duty vehicle fleet.

Two companion papers investigate the technical potential and economic impacts of using the existing idle capacity of the electric infrastructure in conjunction with the emerging plug - in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) technology to meet the majority of the daily energy needs of the U.S. LDV fleet.

Instead, the U.S. should promise to order 50,000 fleet vehicles of the first viable plug - in hybrid - that would be just the stimulus the carmakers need.

According to Electrek, the nation is now the world's biggest electric vehicle market, with a fleet of over 600,000 electric cars — more than both the U.S. and European markets combined.

Three out of four vehicles in the U.S. fleet weren't built to use E15, and the fuel isn't compatible with motorcycles, boats, lawn equipment and ATVs.

Investing in technologies that increase the fuel economy of America's vehicle fleet will create domestic jobs, save consumers money at the pump, cut global warming pollution, and put us on a path to cut projected U.S. oil consumption in half over the next 20 years.

If federal purchasing alone proves insufficient to drive the market for alterative fuel vehicles, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is required to expand the alterative fuel vehicle purchasing program to qualifying private and municipal fleets to meet EPAct's goal of moving 30 % of this nation's vehicle fleet to alterative fuel vehicles by 2010.

Under the assumption that range anxiety is one of the main barriers to the electrification of the U.S. car fleet, Fitzgerald and van Haaren set out to show what types of trips American drivers are actually taking, and from there determine whether a fully charged electric vehicle can meet those needs.