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Ten months ago, Bob Lutz said GM cars would be $5,000 more expensive if the Bush administration got its way with fuel standards by raising fuel economy 4% every year through 2017. Bush didn't get his way, but Congress did with its newly-signed-into-law energy bill that requires automakers have a fleet average of 35 MPG by 2020. According to Lutz, that's going to be even more expensive: "This is going to be a net average cost of $6,000 per vehicle, which will have to be passed onto the consumer."

Lutz said that the premium would actually range from $4,000 to $10,000, and that "it won't come all at once, because 35 mpg doesn't kick in all at once." No one said that saving the world was going to be cheap -- but $6,000 per vehicle? We look forward to figuring out which vehicles will bear the brunt of the plan. Add $10,000 to the price of a ZR-1 and no one's really going to notice. Add $6,000 to the price of a CTS and, depending on how much more expensive its competition gets, things could get interesting. Add $4,000 to the price of an Aveo and you've probably sent a fair number of buyers elsewhere.

[Source: Detroit News]

Lutz says new CAFE standards will increase car price by $6k originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 2006 annual report this week and, to no one's surprise, it shows that the average fuel economy of vehicles hasn't changed since last year. Currently 2006 models are averaging 21 miles per gallon.

Reasons include consumer demand for SUV and pickups. Interestingly, passenger vehicles show a drop in average miles per gallon from 25 mpg in 2005 to 24.6 mpg this year. SUVs and trucks, on the other hand, rose slightly with SUV increasing 0.2 mpg while trucks rose 0.1 mpg.

The all-time mpg high was 22.1 mpg back in 1987-1988.

[Source: Associated Press via Washington Post]

2006 Average fuel economy unchanged states EPA originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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American Honda Motor has received its ruling from the Internal Revenue Service on the allowable tax credits for its hybrid cars for the 2006 tax year, and it's good news for car buyers.

The 2006 Civic Hybrid (shown at right accepting its World Green Car award) gets the biggest boost, with a $2,100 tax credit, while the '06 Accord Hybrid and the automatic transmission '06 Insight are eligible for credits of $1,300 and $1,450, respectively.

Only the IRS and your tax accountant know for sure what tax credit you may be eligible for, so check it out before you sign on the dotted line for that new hybrid.

[Source: American Honda]

Honda announces 2006 hybrid tax credits originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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