The government set a 54.5 mpg corporate
average fuel economy target for 2025, and automakers are rushing to make the necessary adjustments, but there's a problem.
China said on Thursday it would publicly name carmakers who fail to meet the 2015 target and would ban the production of new models that do not
meet fuel economy targets, to be determined by a special weight - based formula.
The number of fuel - cell vehicles will likely ramp up steadily in the coming years as automakers work toward reaching a corporate average
fuel economy target of 54.5 mpg.
In addition to the
federal fuel economy targets, automakers selling in the lucrative California market must also meet the zero - emissions vehicle, or ZEV, mandate, which requires PEVs and fuel cell vehicles to make up about 15 percent of the fleet by 2025.
The National Program does not set a
single fuel economy target number for all vehicles, but instead it establishes separate footprint - based standards for passenger cars and light trucks.
It makes you wonder as all manufacturers struggle to contend with the U.S. government's 2025, 54.5 mile per
gallon fuel economy target, how a manufacturer like Land Rover can continue to offer vehicles like this.
Fuel economy estimates for Ford's first - ever F - 150 Diesel have come in from the EPA, and today, the automaker announced that the new truck has met its 30 - mpg
highway fuel economy target exactly, earning ratings of 22 miles - per - gallon city, 30 highway, and 25 combined.
President Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency to shelve aggressive
vehicle fuel economy targets that have been a foundation for promoting climate change alarmism policies that have hurt the American automotive industry.
The plan would
freeze fuel economy targets at the levels required for vehicles sold in 2020, and leave those in place through 2026, according to federal officials who have reviewed it.
At the moment, automakers who don't
meet fuel economy targets can buy offsetting credits from one another, and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is warning those prices could rise.
After testing more than 35 gearing combinations, Ford decided on one that delivers less torque all the way through the wheels to the ground and still enables it to
hit fuel economy targets.
The Alpha platform is narrower than the Zeta platform, at least in CTS form, so the effect on the Camaro's all - important footprint as factored into its Corporate
Average Fuel Economy target may be negligible.
(The larger a vehicle's footprint, the lower
its fuel economy target.)
Their experimentation began with the Cosmo Sport in May, 1967 and ended, in production terms at least, when the final RX - 8 left the production line in 2012, as the characterful power unit finally succumbed to the demands of emissions regulations and
fuel economy targets.
The fuel economy targets set by the Corporate Average Fuel...