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.
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.
Not exact matches
To
meet the 2025
target, the company is pushing all its technologies at once, including the Earth Dreams powertrain technology that improves the
fuel economy of conventional gasoline vehicles by 10 percent.
Automakers will embrace the EPA regulations because it will make it easier to
meet air - quality
targets and improve
fuel economy, Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, said in an interview.
Powertrain technology advancements will continue at an unprecedented level for the next decade as OEMs strive to
meet aggressive 2025
fuel -
economy targets.
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 combi
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 combi
fuel economy target exactly, earning ratings of 22 miles - per - gallon city, 30 highway, and 25 combined.
Were Hyundai to offer a hybrid version, it might within a couple years have an Elantra able to
meet the EPA's
fuel economy goal of 47 to 62 mpg by 2025, the higher mpg number
targeting automakers such as Hyundai with smaller - size vehicles.
While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle
fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will
meet its 2020
target.
In order to
meet those
targets, the global
economy will have to be swiftly decarbonized and the use of fossil
fuels sharply curtailed, while the use of clean, renewable energy will need to be scaled up just as rapidly.