corporate average fuel economy
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EPA and NHTSA, on behalf of the Department of Transportation, are issuing this joint proposal to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for model years 2017-2025. This proposal extends the National Program beyond the greenhouse gas and corporate average fuel economy standards set for model years 2012-2016. On May 21, 2010, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum requesting that NHTSA and EPA develop through notice and comment rulemaking a coordinated National Program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of light-duty vehicles for model years 2017- 2025. This proposal, consistent with the President's request, responds to the country's critical need to address global climate change and to reduce oil consumption. NHTSA is proposing C...
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Stricter fuel efficiency standards, establishing a 35 miles per gallon target for the corporate average fuel economy of new vehicle sales by model year (MY) 2020, were part of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. During spring of this year, the Obama administration moved up the deadline by which the new requirements have to be met from MY2020 to MY2016. In addition, it instructed the US Environmental Protection Agency to regulate automobile emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). On Jun 4, 2009, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held a workshop at its Detroit branch to discuss the challenges of meeting these stricter fuel efficiency requirements. In order to meet the new fuel economy and GHG emissions targets, automakers will be looking to technologies available at the lowest c...
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U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION: SUBCOMMITTEE ON SURFACE TRANSPORTATION AND MERCHANT MARINE HOLDS A HEARING ...
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EPA and NHTSA are announcing public hearings to be held for the joint proposed rules ``2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards,'' published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2011. The agencies will also accept comment on NHTSA's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS), available on NHTSA's Web site at http:// www.nhtsa.gov/fuel-economy. Three hearings will be held, on January 17, January 19, and January 24, 2012. The agencies will assume that all oral comments presented at the hearing are addressed to the joint proposed rules only, unless speakers specifically reference NHTSA's Draft EIS in oral or written testimony.
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In 2002, the National Academy of Sciences conducted an analysis of the effects of the first 2-1/2 decades of the national fuel economy regulatory program and issued the Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards report. The new system is more fair in the way that it allocates responsibility for improvement. Full-line manufacturers are not at an automatic disadvantage. Any company can sell any size vehicle it wants, as long as it meets the performance regulations for safety, fuel economy, and emissions control. Fuel consumption will be reduced across the whole range of light vehicles with this new approach.
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EPA and NHTSA are announcing a 14-day extension of the comment period for the joint proposed rules ``2017 and Later Model Year Light- Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards,'' published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2011 (76 FR 74854). The comment period was to end on January 30, 2012 (60 days after publication of the proposals in the Federal Register). This document extends the comment period to February 13, 2012. This extension of the comment period is provided to allow the public additional time to comment on the proposed rule. The extension of the comment period does not apply to NHTSA's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS), available on NHTSA's Web site at www.nhtsa.gov/fuel-economy. The comment period for NHTSA's Dra...
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The White House and major automakers recently signed off on a plan to boost automakers' corporate average fuel economy to 54.5 mpg by 2025. How will what amounts to nearly a 100 percent increase in the nation's fleet of new cars be possible?
Certainly, increased sales of all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in the coming years will go a long way toward helping automakers meet this goal. But analysts agree the conventional internal-combustion engine will remain the primary source of propulsion for vehicles in the U.S. for some time to come.
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DETROIT -- Global Automakers' President and CEO Michael J. Stanton testified at today's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Tra...