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.
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.
The Resonance is not a plug - in
vehicle, but it nonetheless pushes the limits of
fuel economy in the SUV class, which will help bridge the gap in consumer acceptance of electrified
vehicles, while also helping automakers make inroads toward the mandated 54.5 mpg
fuel economy target by 2025.
(The larger a
vehicle's footprint, the lower its
fuel economy target.)
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.
A plot of average overall
vehicle fuel economy (CAFE) for new model year passenger cars, the required by law CAFE standard
target fuel economy value (CAFE standard) for new model year passenger cars, and
fuel prices, adjusted for inflation, shows that there has been little variation over the past 20 years.
The C - Max Hybrid is a conventional parallel hybrid, with gasoline and electric power sources sharing propulsion duties, and is
targeted to deliver better
fuel economy than the current Fusion Hybrid — which, at 41 mpg combined, is already the most
fuel - efficient sedan sold in the U.S.. It's also said to operate in electric - only mode beyond 47 mph; and the
vehicle's Powersplit controller is an evolution of what's currently used in the Fusion.
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.
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.
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.
GM and DaimlerChrysler AG have also committed to increasing the
fuel economy of their
vehicles, but have not given specific
targets.
Supported by automakers, unions, national security groups, and environmentalists, the standards (known as the» National Program») set
fuel economy and global warming emission
targets, based on
vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the United States.
Supported by automakers, unions, national security groups, and environmentalists, the standards set
fuel economy and global warming emission
targets, based on
vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the United States.