The Ford Focus Electric has received a 110 MPG equivalent fuel efficiency rating in the city and a combined fuel efficiency of 105 MPGe, 6 MPGe more than the all-electric Nissan Leaf.
The sedan gets a combined city and highway fuel economy rating of 33 mpg, according to fueleconomy.gov.
Although the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) assigns a fuel economy rating to all new vehicles, Consumer Reports magazine conducts its own independent testing.
Chrysler is just now launching a refreshed version of its Ram pickup, with an EPA fuel economy rating of 25 miles per gallon on the highway, better than any other pickup.
Eiji Toyoda, president and chairman of Toyota at the time, pressed his employees to produce a car that measured each part against the best in the world, including the best transmission and the best audio system, and to have a high fuel-efficiency rating to boot.
Congress even rejected the idea of rating tires for fuel efficiency, which might have encouraged consumers to buy the most fuel-efficient treads.
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Forty mpg has become the new plateau among automakers with regard to fuel economy, and no brand has perhaps leveraged that rating in recent months more than Hyundai, particularly with the popular Elantra.
Jet fuel is kerosene, so it does not have an octane rating but a cetane rating.
Within a year Travelport hopes to give every single flight a carbon rating, taking into account the plane, the type of fuel used, and other data points.
The growing deficits, fuelled by the government subsidies on essential items such as food and fuel, have triggered warnings of a downgrade of the country's credit rating.
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