One reason for the product blitz is new federal rules mandating a near doubling of fleet average fuel economy by 2025.
"We continue to drive our fleet average even lower, " Chrysler spokesman Nick Cappa said in a written response to the rankings.
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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Where once manufacturers could boost their fleet average mpg by adding a couple of fuel-sippers to their lineup, now every vehicle must meet a government target.
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Another subsidy is in the works, in the form of a mileage rating of 100 mpg -- allowing GM to make and sell that many more low-mileage SUVs under the cockamamie "fleet average" mileage rules.
Current CAFE calls for automakers' passenger car fleets to average 27.5 miles per gallon, and their so-called "light-truck" fleet to average 21.0 miles per gallon.
But since Aston Martin is not a part of group and as such does not have access to small cars that can help pull down the overall fleet's average CO2 emissions, the forthcoming emission targets are set to be costly, and it will be a burden it must carry on its own.
The airline had a bloated workforce, ageing fleet and below-average operational record.
At 7.5 years, the average age of the American fleet is the highest for more than two decades.
As on March 31, Singapore Airlines had a fleet of 101 passenger jets with an average age of six years and eight months, the airline said.
Chuck Jacobus's 11-year-old minivan, for instance, may not perform perfectly, but Team Cybernet wants to prove it can retrofit its robotic technology onto any car, even the U.S. Army's aging fleet, whose vehicles Jacobus says are an average of 13 years old.
Citing the most recent federal data, she said the average age of the cars in the fleet was 19.3 years old.
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Any spare cash that the airline can generate should be used to replace its fleet of 55 ageing Boeing 747s, which are an average of five years away from retirement.
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Right now, the average age of the U.S. automobile fleet is the highest that it has ever been.
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And the entire fleet of vehicles is not aging gracefully either, with an average age of 13 years, made worse by years of tough use.
Fleet-wide fuel economy for passenger cars must jump to an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, from 32.8 miles per gallon this year.
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Along with its slightly below average earnings margins, the analysts conclude that Transocean has overpaid for its large fleet of rigs.
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The pre-holidays drop in the price of gas abated quickly, as average gas prices jumped a whopping 18 cents during the last week, and many consumers and fleet owners would like to avoid such uncertainty in the transportation fuel costs.
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