Corporate Average Fuel Economy
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One of the challenges of today's uber-polarized political environment is that fear and alarmism increasingly overtake the factual realities of an issue. This appears to be the case with President Donald Trump's Wednesday appearance in Detroit to announce the reopening of the comment period for EPA emission rules for vehicles in model years 2022 through 2025. To judge from a spate of statements and releases from various environmental organizations that followed, you might think that the president had single-handedly ended all fuel-economy rules for new cars. He didn't. DON'T MISS: EPA to...
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EPA to reopen emission-rule review; how important is this step?
Tomorrow is expected to be the day when President Donald Trump announces the EPA will reopen the comment period for the vehicle emissions standards it finalized in the waning days of the Obama Administration. The event will likely be accompanied by predictable language: Trump will be...
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EPA to reopen 2022-2025 auto-emission rule decision: report
It looks like lobbying pays off, at least in the case of EPA emission rules. According to numerous recent reports, the EPA is expected to reopen the commenting period for vehicle-emission rules it finalized in January, more than a year ahead of schedule. Automaker CEOs and the Alliance of...
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Auto industry split over halting, changing fuel-economy rules
Just days after the presidential election, automaker lobbyists urged Donald Trump to loosen pending emissions and fuel-economy standards. Shortly after the election, a lobbying group wrote Trump asking him to change or delay an EPA decision that kept planned emissions standards for 2022 to 2025 in...
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Carmakers ask Trump to review EPA rules, use discredited job projection
Just days after the presidential election, an automaker lobbying group wrote Donald Trump asking him to change or delay an EPA decision that kept planned exhaust-emission standards through 2025. Now executives of 18 automakers have sent a second letter, asking the same thing—and echoing a...
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Emissions rules could cost 1 million jobs, Ford CEO tells Trump: what's behind that number? (further updated)
Among his actions during a whirlwind first week in office, U.S. President Donald Trump met last week with the CEOs of U.S. automakers Fiat Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors. He met on two consecutive days with Mark Fields, CEO of Ford, in fact. Fields was part of a group of manufacturing...
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With auto-industry lobbyists pushing to have the Trump Administration roll back current and future emission and fuel-economy rules, automakers clearly see the new U.S. regime as more friendly to the needs of business. And it's possible that indeed, the EPA's vehicle emission limits, the NHTSA's fuel-economy rules, and various other regulations (on safety, on dealer-financing practices, and more) could well be suspended, rolled back, or eliminated. But there is risk for U.S. automakers in particular if that happens. CHECK OUT: Ford will ask Trump to cut fuel-economy rules, CEO says; 'no...
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EPA finalizes emission rules through 2025; no change from existing levels
Seven days before the advent of a new presidential administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has locked in planned auto-emission standards through 2025. The emission limits tie directly to fuel-efficiency rules issued by the NHTSA, effectively requiring those rules to stay the same...
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NHTSA delays penalty rise for carmakers who miss CAFE levels
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will delay implementation of higher penalties for automakers that don't meet fuel-economy standards.
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Ford will ask Trump to cut fuel-economy rules, CEO says; 'no demand' for hybrid, electric cars
Ford will ask President-elect Donald Trump to lower fuel-economy standards, CEO Mark Fields said in a recent interview.
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Carmakers howl about CAFE rules, but regularly beat them; why?
Automakers want less-strict CAFE standards, but the regularly beat the current ones.
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EPA keeps car-emission rules to 2025; what happens under Trump?
Two days ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a ruling that existing limits on tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide for 2022 through 2025 should remain in place. The EPA's carbon limits correspond exactly to NHTSA standards for corporate average fuel economy, and the EPA decision...
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The EPA plans to maintain current fuel-economy standards through 2025.
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Are you driving a car, a crossover, an SUV, or a truck? Do you care?
Automakers are taking advantage of the fact that the EPA has no clear definition for crossover utility vehicles.
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Tougher testing for emissions may mean bigger engines, but why?
On-road emissions testing may cause carmakers to go back to bigger engines.
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EPA's emissions sleuth: the most powerful man you've never heard of
Chris Grundler heads the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality.
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Michigan representative: roll fuel economy rules back to 'reasonable' level
Michigan Congressman Fred Upton believes CAFE standards should be lowered.
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CAFE rules should stay as they are, auto-industry suppliers agree
Automotive suppliers don't want CAFE standards to change, a new survey finds.
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Consumers Unions busts myths spread by CAFE critics.
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Carmakers asked to extend CAFE comment period; EPA said no
It's probably the battle that will do most to determine the carbon emission from new U.S. vehicles over the next decade. Automakers want to modify, delay, or extend the current corporate average fuel economy standards for 2022 through 2025 vehicles; regulators don't. The mid-July release of the...
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Will CAFE standards have to be relaxed starting in 2021?
The battle over CAFE standards continues.
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Automaker lobbyist group predicts doom, gloom over CAFE
An automaker lobbyist group believes CAFE rules aren't realistic.
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What's making cars bigger? Gas-mileage rules may be, say analysts
Carmakers are building larger vehicles so they can aim for lower fuel-economy targets, analysts say.
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Battle over CAFE standards begins now: will they change for 2022-2025?
Two weeks ago today, three federal and state agencies jointly released a "Technical Assessment Report" on how well automakers have done thus far in meeting corporate average fuel economy standards. It concluded that car companies may not quite reach the theoretical goal of an average 54.5 mpg (or...
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