U.S. Tightens Car Mileage Rules, Part of Strategy to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
The shift, which could reshape the American auto market, is designed to encourage sales of electric vehicles and hybrids.

The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per gallon, up from 35.1 miles per gallon. Selling electric vehicles and hybrids would help bring up the average mileage per gallon across their product lines.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Can’t wait for the news reports on automakers faking milage charts in 2045.

    …wait…I’ll probably be dead by then

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      5 months ago

      The way they’re expected to hit those numbers is by selling some electric models which don’t burn gasoline.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I figure they’ll just keep making trucks bigger. Isn’t that why current-gen trucks are so grotesquely over-sized? Genuine question: I vaguely recall reading somewhere that the increase in size was to skirt emissions and/or mileage requirements for light trucks.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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        5 months ago

        Yes, if something crosses the boundary into “light truck” it has a weaker emissions requirement, so manufacturers modified vehicle designs to qualify as such. There’s also a tariff on light trucks, so making a “light truck” is more profitable than a similarly capable “car”.