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New Mileage Rules Debated by Carmakers and White House
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The Obama administration is pushing for new U.S. fuel efficiency standards of 56.2 mpg by 2025. In May 2009 President Obama announced domestic car and light truck fuel efficiency standards of 35 mpg by 2016. Europe is expected to reach fuel efficiency of 60 mpg by 2020. This would still leave Europe considerably ahead of the U.S. in fuel efficiency for automobiles, but the gap would be much smaller. For the last several decades the U.S. has fallen sadly behind Europe and Japan in fuel efficiency. The perception of poor fuel efficiency hurt the automakers badly during periods of high fuel prices and when buyers were facing difficult economic choices. The automakers are beginning to grasp this fact. Mark Reuss, president of General Motors, commented that- "it's very challenging, but its upto us engineers to provide high value to the customer and support the environment." This is an issue that has serious national and global implications as it affects the future prices and demand for oil, emissions, and future economic growth. It would also bring the U.S. in line with Europe and Japan when it comes to fuel efficiency of automobiles.
Efforts in 2011 to bring U.S. fuel efficiency standards on a par with standards in Europe and Japan
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Changes in public perception of Detroit auto companies and fuel efficiency in the 2006- 2008 period.
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Public perception changed in this period. Columnists like Friedman said in the NYT that "GM is more dangerous to America's future" and acting like a "crack dealer." This as GM was offering buyers of large low fuel efficiency vehicles gas capped at $1/99 per gallon. Ford offered free gas upto $1000 with aprepaid Master charge debit card, enough for 6000 miles. Were the automakers lagging behind changing conditions and not adapting to changing public perception, by fighting higher fuel efficiency standards in Congress. link to Hyundai where its technology executive says Hyundai can meet higher standards with new technology and not even counting hybrids in the picture.
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Fuel efficiency of the U.S. vehicle fleet
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Fuel efficiency at 22.4 miles per gallon in 2009 for the entire fleet of vehicles in the US, according to the EPA. A shift to cars from pickups and to smaller cars.
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Fuel Efficiency Technology development
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The search for gains in fuel efficiency by looking beyond engine components to other parts of a vehicle.
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Auto Engineers Look Beyond Engines
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Was America asleep at the spigot? Did Detroit carmakers completely miss on competitive strategy?
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Issues raised by the graph on fuel efficiency over the post war period for the European, Japanese and the American carmakers show a huge striking gap. Not closing this gap was going to hurt Detroit carmakers. It also points to a complete lack of energy policy through higher standards, gasoline tax, and other policy actions by the government. Schwartz of NYT shows the gap and consequences.
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Ford's efforts in this area after the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies. Conditions on fuel economy set by the government for companies taking financial asistance or loans from the government and for the auto industry bailout.
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Improvements in Fuel Economy for carmakers in 2009 and beyond.
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With the government's investment in GM and its clear mandate for higher fuel efficency under the Obama administration, and with Ford's committment to fuel efficiency leadership, as well as the operation of Chrysler by Italian small carmaker Fiat, the move is towards smaller cars, large gains in fuel efficiency, and investment in hybrid cars.
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With the $15 billion coming out of the fuel efficiency mandated loan of $25 billion, are automakers committing to change their companies focus to achieving gains in fuel efficiency comparable to the European mandate of 50 miles per gallon by 2015?
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Toyota's strategy is to license its technology for hybrids, and it has meticulouslp filed patents for moore than 2000 components in the Prius hybrid.
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Carol Browner, US Environmental Protection Agency: 2009-2010
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High oil prices in 2008 and again in 2011. The danger this poses for the Detroit automakers as they continue to depend on SUV's and larger vehicles for revenues and profits. Even with the big strides in making small cars, a Chevy Cruze or a Ford Fiesta is still not as popular as a Honda Civic or a Toyota Prius, says one analyst.
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