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US President Barack Obama announced fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Click to enlarge. Heavy-duty vehicles include both work trucks and commercial medium and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles as defined by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA).
The Obama administration reportedly is at work on a new, more stringent fueleconomy standard that will likely supplant California’s efforts to regulate tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions. Detroit Free Press.
Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fueleconomy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Providing a toolkit for climate resilience. Energy Efficiency.
Changes in the attributes (clockwise from upper left, weight, power, fueleconomy and torque) of the Honda Accord over time as an example of fleet trends in the US. In contrast, fueleconomy actually increased by 15% during that period. Knittel, 2009. Click to enlarge.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fueleconomy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. L/100km), if the vehicles were to meet this CO 2 level all through fueleconomy.
Light-duty vehicle fueleconomy standards, 1978-2025. President Barack Obama announced an agreement with 13 major automakers to pursue the next phase in the Administration’s national vehicle program ( earlier post ) , increasing fueleconomy to a fleetwide average 54.5 MY1978-2011 figures are NHTSA CAFE in mpg.
Sample label for a plug-in gasoline hybrid-electric vehicle, which features fueleconomy ratings for both electricity and gasoline. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the next-generation of fueleconomy labels. Click to enlarge.
The Obama Administration released a progress report highlighting its achievements in meeting the “all-of-the-above” energy plan outlined in the Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future released last year. —President Obama. Transportation. That goal has been accomplished, one year ahead of schedule, according to the report.
88% said is was important for the US to take action now to increase fuel efficiency. Were a more stringent fueleconomy standard to be implemented, 63% said it was likely the cost of vehicles will increase too much. Overall, 51% of respondents view Obama favorably, 44% unfavorably.
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Greenhouse gas and fueleconomy levels under the EPA NHTSA joint proposed rulemaking. The proposal builds upon the core principles President Obama announced in May for a harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US.(
In a speech at Andrews Air Force Base today, President Obama said that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Deport of Transportation (DOT) will sign the joint final rule establishing greenhouse gas emission standards and corporate average fueleconomy standards for light-duty vehicles for model years 2012-2016 tomorrow.
Readers who want to make their voices heard in objection to (or support of) the EPA proposal to freeze fueleconomy standards have until tomorrow to get their comments in. The EPA proposed in early August to undo Obama-era rules requiring cars to reach increasingly stringent fuel-economy targets through 2025.
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The two Federal agencies that set gas mileage and emissions standards for future cars may propose rules that require corporate average fueleconomy to reach 56 miles per gallon by 2025. indicate that the Obama Administration is urging the EPA and NHTSA to push for a 5-percent improvement each year between 2017.
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The EPA's plans to freeze fueleconomy and emissions standards have been put on hold until at least Labor Day, sources familiar with the plans told Bloomberg earlier this week.
government agencies jointly announced the final fuel-economy rules for model year 2012 through 2016 vehicles, giving automakers a single national set of standards and averting the threat of state-by-state regulation. Starting with 2012, automakers must improve the fleet average fueleconomy of their.
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Our challenge, well, President Obama in one policy statement after another has advocated for an all of the above strategy when it comes to sustainable mobility. Do they receive HOV access for their improved fueleconomy and ultra low emissions? In fact in 6 of the states, diesel fuel is penalized with additional state taxes.
Since Wheeler became the acting administrator last July, he has released plans to unwind rising emissions and attendant fueleconomy standards enacted under President Obama, and to rescind California's half-century-old authority to set tighter emissions.
Today the Obama Administration announced the long-awaited new Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standard for cars and light-duty trucks, raising the standard to the equivalent of 54.5 miles/gallon, by 2025. The CAFE standards are regulations.
The auto industry’s current materials portfolio will need to be augmented to meet new 2025 fueleconomy standards, according to a WardsAuto and DuPont Automotive survey conducted in late July. The WardsAuto, DuPont survey was conducted just before the Obama administration’s originally proposed 2025 fleet average of 56.2
US President Barack Obama today announced a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US. The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fueleconomy standard of 35.5
The new Obama Administration proposal to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks to an average 54.5 As new cars and light trucks are purchased in the future and old ones retired, average fueleconomy will improve, reducing the 2009 forecast of gasoline sales and HTF revenues. mpg by 2016).
One is the tough new fueleconomy rules the US administration of President Barack Obama will introduce in 2012.The But the automakers are now accelerating their efforts to develop electric cars, and there are two main reasons for this.
Even the automaker lobbying group didn't go this far in their complaints about emission and fuel-economy rules for vehicles in the 2022 through 2025 model years. When the Obama Administration approved final EPA emission rules for those years, the automakers complained that the comment period had been cut short.
First, according to a Bloomberg report, is Pruitt's decision to freeze fueleconomy standards and eliminate increases that had been approved during the Obama Administration. The EPA's Science Advisory Board, tasked with agency oversight, is taking issue with at least three of EPA Administrator Scott Priutt's signature decisions.
Bush, is calling for policymakers to employ technology neutral policies as they begin to implement the new CAFE regulations proposed by President Obama. Current fueleconomy policy clearly demonstrates this fact. —“The Case for Technology Neutral Public Policy in FuelEconomy Debate”.
Administrator Pruitt also announced the start of a joint process with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop a notice and comment rulemaking to set revised GHG emissions standards and Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standards. The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong.
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Department of Energy and the Obama administration have confirmed new Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standards for all cars made between 2017 and 2025. After a long, political battle, both on Capitol Hill and in Detroit, the U.S.
looks to be well on its way to a corporate average fuel-economy requirement of 54.5 That translates to 40 to 45 mpg in real-world gas mileage, but it's still a notable increase in fuel efficiency over today's 25 mpg. With agreement among the White House, the EPA and NHTSA, and most major automakers (though not all), the U.S.
Today the Obama Administration announced the long-awaited new Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standard for cars and light-duty trucks, raising the standard to the equivalent of 54.5 miles/gallon, by 2025. The CAFE standards are regulations.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to maintain existing Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standards through 2025. Enacted by the Obama Administration in 2012, the standards call for automakers to achieve a fleet average of 54.5 mpg (equivalent to about 38 mpg in the real world) by that year.
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