Sentences with phrase «miles per gallon by»

Mr. Obama already has imposed regulations requiring that cars get 42 miles per gallon by 2016.

California officials said there's a reason the industry opposes its efforts: While the new federal standards would raise fuel economy to 31.6 miles per gallon by 2015, California's rules would require the U.S. vehicle fleet to get 36 miles per gallon by 2015.

While the standards represent a quicker pace of improvement than the target of 35 miles per gallon by 2020 set in EISA 2007, auto manufacturers supported the move, saying that it provides the level of certainty and uniformity the industry needs.

The next phase of the standards calls for improving the average fuel efficiency of new cars and light trucks to about 50 miles per gallon by 2025 in lab tests, corresponding to a real - world performance of about 36 mpg.

While the bureaucrats in Washington have patted themselves on the back for requiring a fuel - efficiency standard of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, there are companies — heck, there are just regular people — building PHEVs that can double, even triple that.

The new rules, which passed with support from the country's biggest car companies, will require automakers to get a fleet average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, nearly double today's average.

Nichols, speaking at a Capitol news conference flanked by environmental advocates, was responding to Tuesday's announcement by the federal Department of Transportation, which proposed that all new cars and trucks meet a collective average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020.

About 10 days after the finding was left unopened by officials at the Office of Management and Budget, Congress passed and President Bush signed a new energy bill mandating an increase in average fuel - economy standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.

Meanwhile, several auto industry officials said they backed the idea of a universal fuel - efficiency standard aimed at curbing greenhouse gases, even if it is stricter than the country's current goal of achieving a fleetwide average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020.

New CAFE standards pushed by the Obama administration will increase the combined fuel efficiency of cars and light duty trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

One of the most important is the sudden surge in vehicle efficiency; new CAFE standards pushed by the Obama administration will increase the combined fuel efficiency of cars and light duty trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

WASHINGTON — Should new cars be required to get 62 miles per gallon by 2025?

This new energy legislation, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, raised the fuel economy standards of America's cars, light trucks, and SUVs to a combined average of at least 35 miles per gallon by 2020 — a 10 mpg increase over 2007 levels — and required standards to be met at maximum feasible levels through 2030.

For instance, the EPA has been ratcheting up fuel - economy standards for new cars and light trucks, which are now scheduled to rise from their current 35 miles per gallon to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

... [Clinton's] plan would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 to avoid the worst effects of global warming... Hillary would increase fuel efficiency standards to 55 miles per gallon by 2030...

These CAFE standards are set to rise from their current 35 miles per gallon to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

That EPA is regulating fuel economy is also evident from EPA, NHTSA, and the California Air Resources Board's (CARB's) Interim Joint Technical Assessment Report, the framework document for the Administration's current plan to increase average fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

At the high end of the range presented by EPA and DOT, vehicles would average about 60 miles per gallon by 2025.

Less than a week later, the Center filed suit to overturn them, and in 2010 the administration announced its intent to increase fuel economy standards, with the most ambitious proposal raising them to about 37 miles per gallon by 2017.

Those vehicle rules, which require a fleetwide fuel - economy average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, are projected by EPA to cut 580 million metric tons of greenhouse gases by 2030.

Recently, some environmental pressure groups suggested that the next round of increases in Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards for cars and light trucks should be 60 miles per gallon by 2025.

Six percent per year between 2017 and 2025 would get to 62 miles per gallon by 2025.

In August 2012, standards werefinalized that mandated reaching maximum gas mileage of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

The next year, the EPA and the U.S. Department of Transportation began a process that will raise the fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

Note: Under the unified program standards are set in emissions by grams of CO2 per mile by the EPA and miles per gallon by the NHTSA.

This mandate requires that America's fleet of new cars and trucks get on average 54 miles per gallon by 2025 — if EPA's assumptions are correct.

Two years ago, the Obama administration imposed ambitious automobile fuel - efficiency standards, dictating that the average vehicle travel 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 — an 83 percent improvement over current standards.

In the transport sector, accounting for some 35 % of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the President has put in place historic new standards that will nearly double the fuel economy of our cars and light duty trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

According to those who have accessed early drafts of the EPA's endangerment findings, the original conclusion was that the country could raise automobile fuel efficiency standards to 37.7 miles per gallon by 2018 without significant economic hardship.

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.

As part of this strategy, we worked with Congress to pass energy legislation that specifies a new fuel economy standard of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, and requires fuel producers to supply at least 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022.

Highway mileage suffers two miles per gallon by selecting the manual transmission at 27 city / 34 highway.

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.

Because the Environmental Protection Agency says vehicle fuel efficiency standards have to reach a combined 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 for entire corporate fleets.

It has reasonable gas mileage, at around 25 miles per gallon by my calculations.

In a world where manufacturers are doing whatever they can to reach 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, there's no place for a 645hp, 10 - cylinder behemoth like this.

The introduction of a more fuel - efficient truck — the Colorado can get about three more miles a gallon than Chevy's most fuel - efficient full - size Silverado — would also be beneficial to Ford as it and other automakers try to achieve a federally mandated lineup average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could strengthen fuel economy standards beyond its move last week, which lifted so - called CAFE standards to roughly 36 miles per gallon by 2016.

In the United States, the Obama administration plans to implement rules that push corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards to a fleetwide average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, four years ahead of the schedule Congress laid out in a 2007 energy law.

They require automakers to double fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

Adjusting for a shift in consumer demand to larger vehicles, the current rules are projected to hike fuel efficiency to a fleetwide average of 46.8 miles per gallon by 2026, according to a letter sent Tuesday by Senator Tom Carper to Pruitt and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

Biden claims this would bring us to an average of 40 miles per gallon by 2017.

While the diesel version gets in the 60 + miles per gallon range and can be run on biodiesel, the gasoline version is only rated at a combined 36 miles per gallons by the EPA.

Not exact matches

Hyundai announced Monday that it would adjust the cars» reported fuel economy by 1 to 2 miles per gallon.

In November 2012, Hyundai and Kia conceded they overstated fuel economy by at least a mile per gallon on vehicles after the EPA found errors for 13 Hyundai and Kia models from the 2011 to 2013 model years.

Elio's motivations are similar to Tesla's — while it's driven by an old - fashioned internal combustion engine, the small, light vehicle will get something like 84 miles per gallon, and the company's DOE application will hinge on its advantages in environmental impact and energy independence.

In May 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced new fuel economy standards intended to compel manufacturers to achieve an average of 35.5 miles per gallon across their car and light truck models by 2016.

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.

And we have increased fuel economy (miles per gallon) by 3 percent per year since at least 2010.

In fact, the beverage industry has improved miles per gallon in its fleets by 13 percent since 2010 and is striving to increase that by another 10 percent by the end of the decade.