Sentences with phrase «vehicle fuel economy rules»

Carbon pricing programs can also work in a complementary manner with other renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, such as renewable electricity standards, energy efficiency standards, and vehicle fuel economy rules.

Not exact matches

Honda is just one of the many automakers turning to electric vehicles to help them meet stringent new U.S. fuel economy and emissions rules.

Raj Nair, Ford's group vice president of global product development, told reporters those rules date «back to the 1970s, and they were created by the EPA as a general means to provide fuel economy labels without having to test every single vehicle in the industry.»

The term «full size» comes from the fact that these are the largest trucks classified as «light duty vehicles» by the EPA, meaning they're governed by the same fuel - economy rules as cars.

Current fuel economy rules favor the smallest, least protective vehicles.

For example, in the year 2040 alone, EPA's analysis estimates that American car buyers — in the absence of the farsighted rule on light - duty trucks — will miss out on $ 104 billion in savings they could have reaped, had they paid higher sticker prices for vehicles that would get better fuel economy.

This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.

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.

EPA and DOT recently proposed rules to implement the Obama Administration's May announcement that federal standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles would be set to «harmonize» with California's groundbreaking greenhouse gas standards by 2016.

Dotson traces that sense of dread back to 2009 when the Obama administration issued its first rule to address climate change: the first round of increases in vehicle fuel economy mandated by the EPA.

The «footprint rule» — which refers to the area within the perimeter of the four wheels — calculates a vehicle's fuel economy as a function of its size.

Well, the EPA allows carmakers to use the «general label rule» to rate vehicles with the same engine, transmission and weight class using the same fuel economy data.

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.