Sentences with phrase «average fuel economy requirements»

«In light of future greenhouse gas and corporate average fuel economy requirements beginning in 2017,» their petition says, «camera - based systems represent an opportunity to increase vehicle fuel efficiency through improved aerodynamics by eliminating externally mounted mirrors.»

FCA's next Ram 1500 pickup under development now is being designed to meet future Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements, so that FCA will no longer be required to purchase CO2 credits.

The issue now is that more and more cars ordinary cars have premium fuel recommendations, and they're typically not «performance» cars, but vehicles that are helping manufacturers move toward the 54.5 mile per gallon average fuel economy requirement in 2025.

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When it came to discussing the C7 Project, Tadge talked about the reality of the CAFE fuel economy requirements and that Corvette has to play its part as the automaker is under a federal mandate to achieve a 35 mpg average across the fleet by 2016.

Fuel economy is a little lower than average for the class, but if 300 horsepower isn't a requirement, a mild hybrid version of the LaCrosse is available.

Auto company executives show off new models with all - wheel drive.Even so, as Washington lawmakers visited the Motor City recently, the Big Three heard about more safety regulations instead of less.With stiffer requirements for both emissions and corporate average fuel economy already in the offing, Washington's requirements for installing air bags and passive restraint systems couldn't come at a costlier time for Detroit.

All manufactures average fuel economy are already much higher than CAFE requirements (except Chrysler) so no gains for hybrids in 2011.

HERE is a poll by the IGM of their Economic Experts Panel on a carbon tax; the question posed was: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles».

In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»