Sentences with phrase «corporate fleet average»
[6] Many industry insiders view cars like the Focus as «compliance cars» because of their role in helping to bring down the corporate fleet average fuel economy to meet current fuel - economy standards.
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The efficiency tweaks are part of an effort by automakers to comply with federal corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) rules that now require that the U.S. car fleet meet fuel economy standards of 35 miles per gallon (15 kilometers per liter) by 2016.
China's fuel economy rules, as stringent as those to be enforced in the United States, Europe and Japan, involve a fleet - wide corporate average target of 6.9 liters per 100 km in 2015 and 5.0 liters in 2020.
Data from the U.S. government show that car fleets from Japanese firms Toyota and Honda have consistently been above the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that manufacturers are supposed to meet (small graphs below).
The federal government is expected to try for stricter corporate average fuel economy regulations in 1991, which would force the automakers to obtain a 30 - mile per gallon to 40 - mpg average from their fleet of cars in the near future.
Instead, numerous automakers, including General Motors, doubled down on the fuel as a way to boost fleet - wide fuel economy and meet what they thought were going to be more stringent future Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
The 3.8 L I6 was dropped from the lineup, as was the 5.0 L V8 to meet the 20 mpg ‑ US (12 L / 100 km; 24 mpg ‑ imp) average corporate fleet fuel economy standard for the 1980 model year.