Thanks to stringent federal standards, average fuel economy reached an all-time high in 2012.
EPA, the agency is now in the business of specifying corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards.
In the U.S. automakers must boost their fleetwide average fuel economy from the current 27mpg to 35.5mpg by 2016.
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According to the American School Bus Council, the average fuel consumption for diesel-powered buses is seven miles per gallon.
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That had been talked about for 30 years in Washington, and for 30 years, Corporate Average Fuel Economy didn't rise.
One reason for the product blitz is new federal rules mandating a near doubling of fleet average fuel economy by 2025.
Mr Obama is championing ambitious fuel-economy standards for vehicles that would result in cars doubling their average fuel efficiency by 2025.
The United States is headed down a similar path, with stricter Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards going into effect over the next several years.
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From 2006 to 2010 the average fuel economy of new cars and light trucks rose from 25.8 miles per gallon of petrol to 29.2.
The feds recently finalized the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which will require automakers to achieve a fleet average of 54.5 mpg by 2025.
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In April, the federal government adopted standards for automobiles requiring manufacturers to improve the average fuel economy of their new-car fleets thirty per cent by 2016.
The iQ's city mileage is 36 mpg, meaning that its average fuel economy pencils out to 37 mpg, the highest of any nonhybrid on the market.
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Last week, the heads of the Big Three--General Motors, Ford Motor and DaimlerChrysler--pushed back, claiming that achieving those increases in corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) is too costly.
In the U.S., new regulations require carmakers to boost their fleetwide average fuel economy from the current 27 miles per gallon to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.
In 2011, when the Obama Administration sought to raise average fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, it found unlikely allies in Detroit.
Jump back to 1975 and the institution of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements designed to limit our reliance on foreign oil in the wake of the Arab oil embargo.
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.
Then, by 2025, the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard rises to 54.5 mpg, a level of fuel efficiency that has virtually ever carmaker stretching to come up with new technologies.
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The new corporate-average fuel economy (CAFE) figure, originally scheduled for 2020 but brought four years forward by the Obama administration, amounts to a 34% increase over today's actual average of 26.4mpg.
Just two non-electric vehicles (the Smart and Scion iQ) average over 35 mpg, while the average fuel economy of cars sold in 2012 averaged just 23.1 mpg, according to industry analyst TrueCar.
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Finally, a measure in the bill would require the administration to raise corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards from their current level of 25 miles per gallon (mpg) to 35 mpg by 2020.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing a plan that would force automakers to produce more energy-efficient cars--increasing average fuel economy from an average 25 miles per gallon to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.
That regulation nearly doubles the mileage requirement for manufacturers, making them boost their corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) from the current standard of 29.7 mpg for cars and light trucks to 54.5 mpg.
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Typical of the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) rules, there are many credits offered for different types of vehicles based on their drivetrains, encouraging automakers to make and sell alternative drive and alternative fuel vehicles.
Bush wants to reduce U.S. gasoline usage by 20% by 2012 through a massive increase in the renewable fuels standard and a hike in the corporate average fuel economy standard for cars and light trucks.
Powerless to resist new EPA regulations while two Detroit companies were owned by the government, the industry knuckled under to government mandates forcing 35.5 mpg average fuel economy by 2016 and 54.5 mpg by 2025.
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Look, there are certain brands that are represented here today that, based on their previous -- based on the line of cars that they have, don't have a great fluctuation in their corporate average fuel economy.
The fuel economy standard (FES) policy regulates the sales-weighted average fuel economy of new vehicles (designed to be similar to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, which were enacted in 1978 and have been recently tightened).
At the moment the stuff costs less, in real terms, than it did in 1949, and this glut of dirt-cheap gasoline has meant that the average fuel efficiency of American vehicles has actually declined over the past decade.
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