The recent release of a “Technical Assessment Report” on automakers’ efforts to meet Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards has kicked off a debate over whether those standards should be lowered.
Federal regulators have denied a request from automakers to extend the period that comments can be submitted over a report showing U.S. automakers probably will miss the 54.5 miles-per-gallon fleetwide average for 2025.
Seventy-nine percent of respondents polled by an environmental group want the federal government to keep increasing fuel economy standards for automakers, according to findings released Thursday.
A simmering debate that normally occurs behind closed doors over whether changes should be made to fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards has spilled out into the open.
Tesla Motors is accustomed to being at odds with the rest of the U.S. auto industry. So it was again on Tuesday, at an industry conference in bucolic northern Michigan, where a Tesla executive took the industry to task for not trying hard enough to sell electric vehicles.
The auto industry will need to step up introduction of fuel-saving technology to help the U.S. meet aggressive goals to combat climate change despite manufacturers’ requests for relief from existing rules, the Environmental Protection Agency’s top transportation official said.
Hands were set wringing last week when the Environmental Protection Agency announced it no longer expects the fuel economy of America’s light-duty vehicles to average 54.5 miles per gallon in the 2025 model year.
The shortfall came as a shock to many analysts and observers who had long operated under the assumption that U.S. vehicle efficiency targets were effectively written in stone.
Will U.S. regulators step away from the expected fuel economy target of 54.5 mpg for 2025 model-year vehicles, as established in 2012?
The U.S. government has issued a report on fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for U.S. cars and trucks that were first established in 2012.
