Fuel Economy

Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 hours ago
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Source: www.latimes.com --- 11 days ago
Unwittingly choosing the wrong tires can hurt gas mileage. Unfortunately, no rating standard exists. William Lowry recently spent $500 to replace the tires on his Toyota Camry hybrid. The salesman said the Goodyear Regatta 2 tires were just as good as the Bridgestone Turanzas that came with the car. But it didn't take long for Lowry to notice that his Fuel Economy had fallen by five miles a gallon. ...

Source: blogs.cars.com --- 9 days ago
As automakers look to meet the 2015 deadline for the increased CAFE standards, two non-American companies have outlined how they intend to achieve those goals and compete in the U.S. market. Audi will look to take a familiar route, pinning much of their fortunes on the development of lithium-ion batteries and eventually an electric car with zero tailpipe emissions. The company already sells plenty of diesel cars in Europe and plans to introduce more diesels to the U.S. However, it sees the bulk of its research and development being geared toward the plug-in. It hopes to be selling an all-electric car within ten years. Meanwhile, Hyundai has not committed to building an electric vehicle. Instead, the Korean automaker wants to up its fleet average with small improvements. It thinks it can raise its car average from 32.4 to 37.5 mpg and its truck average from 25.5 to 31 mpg. Some of the changes include increasing the use of lightweight materials, aerodynamic improvements, low-rolling resistance tires, direct-injection engines, and electric power steering systems. We’ve already seen Chevy add some of these changes and eek out a few more mpg from its Economy car, the Cobalt. Maybe this will become a trend. Hyundai Aiming to Lose Weight, Increase Efficiency by 2015 (Autoblog)Audi to Offer Electric Cars in 5-10 Years (Reuters) ...

Source: www.npr.org --- 2 days ago
Around 400 Denver residents, including the city's mayor, are part of an experiment to see if drivers can be trained to drive "greener." A device in their cars will track whether they have bad driving habits that increase Fuel consumption, thus contributing more to greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 8 days ago
Officials with several U.S. automakers, including Detroit's three companies and Toyota Motor Co., are to meet Thursday with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who told Detroit last year to "get off your butt" and hit California's Fuel-Economy standards. ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 6 days ago
Some in Washington, including President Bush, have continued to push more and more stringent corporate average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards onto the Big Three automakers and their suppliers. Though our Michigan delegation has succeeded in controlling these job-killing efforts, some real damage has still been inflicted. ...

Source: www.theautochannel.com --- 9 days ago
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Source: www.detnews.com --- 2 days ago
William Lowry recently spent $500 to replace the tires on his Toyota Camry hybrid. The salesman said the Goodyear Regatta 2 tires were just as good as the Bridgestone Turanzas that came with the car. But it didn't take long for Lowry to notice that his Fuel Economy had dipped by five miles per gallon. ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 3 days ago
Thirty years ago, Michigan voters decided through a constitutional amendment that state government should not be able to impose new duties or costs on local governments without paying for them. Now, U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg wants to adopt a similar idea for the federal government's Fuel Economy regulations for the auto industry. ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 10 days ago
News flash: Skyrocketing gas prices are driving historic shifts in the habits of car buyers, pushing them away from thirsty pickups and full-size SUVs and into four-cylinder compacts. ...

Source: www.mlive.com --- 9 days ago
At least one good thing might come out of the lengthy Delphi Corp. bankruptcy. A surplus Delphi research lab in Macomb County's Shelby Township has been donated to an initiative that could help automakers meet stringent new federal Fuel Economy... ...

Source: www.idahostatesman.com --- 9 days ago
Lower interest rates are a double-edged sword that hurts some even as it helps others, and there is no getting around that. ...

Source: www.smartbrief.com --- 13 days ago
In a new multiplatform campaign slated to bow today, Kia is continuing to position its cars as Fuel efficient, and also as mo - More -  ...

Source: www.ornl.gov --- 10 days ago
(Oak Ridger) With the national average cost for Fuel now reaching more than $3.50 a gallon and regional prices not far behind, there is a tool that may help....5/1 ...

Source: cryptome.org --- 10 days ago
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Source: www.ncpa.org --- 13 days ago
Conventional gas delivers more energy than a gallon that contains ethanol, says the Kansas City Star. For instance: A gallon of ethanol has 76,000 British thermal units while conventional gasoline has 115,000 Btu. A blended gallon of gas that contains 10 percent ethanol gets 111,100 Btu. That amounts to a 3.4 percent reduction in energy, which over the course of a year of normal driving would take an additional 40 gallons of E-10 to go the same distance as conventional gas. If it's E-85, a blend containing 85 percent ethanol that can be used in specially equipped vehicles, the energy loss soars and more than offsets its lower cost, even though E-85 is about 60 cents per gallon less at retail than conventional gas: Mileage can suffer by about 25 percent with E-85, according to AAA. Over the course of a year, that amounts to an extra 300 gallons of E-85 to go the same distance as when using conventional gas. That means an average household, when the total cost of conventional gas and E-85 are compared, would spend nearly $100 more per year for E-85. To those that have the flex-Fuel vehicles that can use the Fuel, it's tempting to purchase E-85 because at first glance it appears to be a great deal compared with conventional gasoline.  But at least for now, it isn't, says the Star. For example: AAA now calculates a price for E-85 to adjust for its energy content. The national average pump price for the Fuel on April ...

Source: www.postcrescent.com --- 1 hour ago
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Source: www.autospectator.com --- 1 hour ago
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Source: www.worldaffairsboard.com --- 9 days ago
---Quote--- Monday, May 5, 2008 Daniel Howes *Market trumps Congress when it comes to Fuel Economy* News flash: Skyrocketing gas prices are driving historic shifts in the habits of car buyers, pushing them away from thirsty pickups and full-size SUVs and into four-cylinder compacts. What a surprise. Might all the smart people behind tougher federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules be watching? If they are, do they understand what we are witnessing? Namely, this: It's not arbitrary mileage goals, mostly unhinged from engineering reality and focused on a handful of companies, that are dramatically changing the behavior of the driving public. It's the price of Fuel, stupid. Cars outsold trucks in April for the first time in a generation, according to industry figures compiled by Autodata Corp., and four-cylinder powered cars outsold those with six cylinders under the hood. The shift, clearly a blow to truck-dependent Detroit automakers scrambling to dig out of their deep hole, is confirmation that market forces are a swifter disciplinarian than the collective wisdom of Congress, career bureaucrats and the environmental lobby. "It's easily the most dramatic segment shift I have witnessed in the market in my 31 years here," George Pipas, Ford Motor Co.'s chief sales analyst, told the New York Times. *Politics pursues easy path* Which ought to say something to the lemmings -- including presidential contenders John McCa ...

Source: greenoptions.com --- 12 days ago
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