Current rules, known collectively as Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, force automakers to average 21 miles per gallon for all of the so-called light trucks it sells--pickups, minivans and SUVs.
The standard for light-trucks a classification that also includes SUVs under 8, 500 pounds is 24.1.
The company is hoping to enliven its tired portfolio of vehicles with the launch of a range of light trucks and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) later this year.
With 20% overcapacity in car plants, Detroit has relied on the busy light-trucks business to earn its profits the vehicles account for a staggering 75% of DaimlerChrysler's American output, for instance.
The company says there are 33 million light- and medium-duty trucks on the road, and converting them to plug-in hybrid results in an 80 to 200 percent fuel economy improvement.
Already, the Obama Administration has made historic progress through investments in clean energy, new fuel economy standards for cars and light-duty trucks that will save approximately 1.8 billion barrels of oil, and steps toward the first-ever fuel economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
We've established an historic fuel economy standard for model years 2012-2016 for light-duty trucks and cars.
In August, the Obama administration completed rules setting national fuel economy standards at 54.5 mpg for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025.
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According to data compiled by the new-car-buying website TrueCar.com, the average transaction price for cars and light-duty trucks in the United States is on the rise.
C. to announce the next round of a coordinated national program to improve fuel efficiency for cars and light-duty trucks for model years 2017 to 2025.
Under the proposal, model year 2017-2025 cars and light-duty trucks are expected to achieve increases in fuel efficiency equivalent to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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This agreement forges historic -- was an historic agreement that nearly doubled fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon for cars and light-duty trucks by model year 2025.
Its engine segment (49% of net sales in 2010) produces a wide range of engines that run on diesel and natural gas used in heavy-, medium- and light-duty trucks, buses, automobiles, RVs, and industrial vehicles.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) have formally announced their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for model year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light-duty trucks.
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The rising use of aluminum in passenger cars and light trucks comes because of rising fuel-efficiency standards in the U.S., he said.
Let's say you work in the U.S. auto industry, which for years has banked on large, fuel-hungry SUVs and light trucks.
Chrysler is everything that General Motors is trying not to be--overly reliant on light trucks and beset with overcapacity and losses in North America.
The upshot is that lightweight materials will be used much more in the light trucks and passenger cars of the not-very-distant future than they are in those of today.
Chrysler is everything that General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) is trying not to be--overly reliant on light trucks and beset with overcapacity and losses in North America.
The light trucks coming to market like the next-generation Chevrolet Silverado pickup and Ford Transit cargo van feature loads of fuel-saving technologies, proving you can have the space and capability you need and still get decent gas mileage.
Several companies have already started field-testing battery-electric passenger cars and light trucks for use in their fleets.
One of the other things about -- what's always been for CAFE is that you've got a slightly different standard for cars and light trucks, but what I think this allows -- this allows people to continue to purchase what they want, but it also provides certainty for the industry in a market that is obviously and clearly changing.
Think of it: five years ago, there were barely cars at Chrysler, where three-quarters of its sales were light trucks.
The light-duty car category excludes some pickup trucks that are marketed to consumers, like the Ford F250 and F350 models.
Rules on fuel economy distorted the market because they had a loophole for pickups and other light trucks a sop to farmers and tool-toting artisans.
The BBC team saw a lot of soldiers inside the compound and some old, light anti-aircraft guns attached to the back of trucks.
This is going to be probably the third-best year ever in sales of cars and light trucks.
Approximately 80% of the commercial vehicles sold were mini and light trucks and buses, ideal replacements for agricultural vehicles and those ever-present inkfish.
But now that Ford, ironically once one of the movement's most hated adversaries (think of the Expedition), has made good on a pledge to examine better ways to fuel its cars and trucks, environmentalists may see a light at the end of the tunnel -- as well as a new addition to their arsenal in the war against other, more stubborn carmakers.
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