Sentences with phrase «fleet average fuel»

If they are not the same thing, then the only inferences we can make relate to DIRECTLY UNMEASURABLE statistical qualities of the sample — the mean, standard deviation etc etc, such as «our fleet average fuel consumption is x MPG», or — digging further — «On average, California drivers in our fleet consume 15 % more fuel per mile than Texas drivers».

[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.

Not exact matches

The Obama rules adopted in 2012 sought to double average fleet - wide vehicle fuel efficiency to about 50 miles (80 km) per gallon by 2025, but included an evaluation due by April 2018 to determine if the rules were appropriate.

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.

Under the Senate proposal, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) would divide the fleet into classes based on size or weight and set fuel - economy standards for each class to achieve an overall average of 35 mpg by 2020.

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).

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.

«The introduction of eco-friendly vehicles such as the Optima Sportswagon Plug - in Hybrid will ensure Kia remains on course to achieve its mission of improving average fleet fuel efficiency by 25 per cent by 2020, compared to 2014 levels.»

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.

Compared with the fleet average of the gasoline engines typically found in the U.S., the TDI boasts a fuel - efficiency advantage of up to 40 percent.

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) standafuel 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) standafuel economy and meet what they thought were going to be more stringent future Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standaFuel 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.

The company sad a few years ago it plans to achieve a fleet average of 35 miles per gallon by 2015, five years ahead of the timetable for new fuel economy regulations.

**** A Fleet Financials survey shows that, on average, fleets that use a managed fuel program realize savings of up to 15 % on their overall fuel management costs compared to fleets that do not.

Today, LATAM Airlines Group's fleet averages seven years old, one of the most modern in the industry, resulting in greater fuel use efficiencies and less greenhouse gas emissions.

**** A Fleet Financials survey shows that, on average, fleets that use a managed fuel program realize savings of up to 15 % on their overall fuel management costs compared to fleets that do not.

So what if they were more fuel efficient and kept the fleet fuel economy average down, reducing CO2 emissions; nobody, including the government, cares about that.

The new fuel economy standard will increase to an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 (for fleets of cars and light trucks together), from the current 27.3 miles per gallon.

The PHEVs not only greatly outperformed the average American fleet fuel economy of 19.8 MPG, they did significantly better than the standard hybrids — 53 % fuel economy improvement for the plug - in Ford Escape and 93 % improvement for the plug - in Prius.

Sets Light - Duty Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards to a fleet - wide average of 54.5 mpg for passenger cars, light - duty trucks and medium - duty passenger vehicles, by model year 2025.

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.

A combination of these with other technologies, including materials substitution, reduced aerodynamic drag, reduced rolling resistance, reduced engine friction and pumping losses, has the potential to approximately double the fuel economy of «new» light - duty vehicles by 2030, thereby roughly halving carbon emissions per vehicle mile travelled (note that this is only for a new car and not the fleet average)(medium agreement, medium evidence)[5.3.1].

Better vehicle fuel efficiency standards: The European Union's fuel efficiency fleet average for new cars now stands at 41 MPG, and is rising steadily.

The nation's coal fleet is fuel secure because the average coal - fired power plant has a 70 to 80 day supply of coal stockpiled on site.

And just ten months ago carmakers in America were lining up to lobby Congress against proposed legislation that would oblige them to achieve a fleet - average fuel consumption of 35 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2020.

Better air quality: If the same amount of electricity as that generated by America's 10,000 - MW wind turbine fleet were instead produced using the average utility fuel mix, it would emit 73,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 27,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year, as well as other pollutants such as mercury.

The United States could have achieved the same reduction in oil use (~ 11 billion gallons of oil per year) by simply improving (average fleet) vehicle fuel efficiency by just over ONE MILE PER GALLON.»

CAFE standards set the average new vehicle fuel economy, as weighted by sales, that a manufacturer's fleet must achieve.

These standards were intended to roughly double the average fuel economy of the new car fleet to 27.5 mpg by model year (MY) 1985.

Based on these forecasts if E85 flex - fuel vehicles increased to just 14 % of the automobile fleet by 2022, and 86 % of vehicles continued buying E10, the overall 20 % blend average shown in Figure 1 would be satisfied.