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0Obama to announce fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles on Tuesday 1312719840
2011 Ram Truck 3500 HD – Click above for high-res image galleryAs you may remember, the Obama Administration called for the first-ever fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles back in early 2010. By October of 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had whipped ... -
Auto industry supports Obama's newly announced long-term mpg standards 1274898540
President Obama recently announced plans to define fuel economy regulations beyond 2016. He briefly outlined a new plan that would regulate the mileage requirements of cars and light trucks through 2025 and medium- and heavy-duty trucks through 2018. The overall goal of his plan is quite simple: ...
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New CAFE regulations could cut oil imports by 1.4 million barrels per day 1243363440
This is no brainer: the new CAFE standards can save the U.S. a lot of oil. How much? That's a more difficult question to answer. Suistanable Business took the calculator out and came up with an impressive result: 1.4 million barrels of oil per day by 2020. Just for sake of comparison, that's about ...
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Chrysler says alliance with Fiat will allow it to meet future CAFE requirements 1242777720
Chrysler's ENVI line of concepts - Click above for a high-res gallery of the Dodge Circuit EVJoining the chorus of supporters applauding the Obama Administration's new CAFE standards is bankrupt automaker Chrysler. After 'thanking the administration for their leadership' and for creating a single ... -
Responses to higher CAFE standard from Plug In America, Auto Alliance, more 1242761760
In President Obama's speech this afternoon about the new 35.5 mpg CAFE standard for 2016, he made sure to emphasize the broad support for the new national rule. From the responses we're seeing around the web following the announcement, it's clear that he wasn't just expressing a hope that a broad ...
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Obama: CAFE increase is "an historic agreement to help American break its addiction to oil" 1242751380
Aside from the Daimler-Tesla announcement earlier today, the big green car news for May 19 is the increase in CAFE standards that President Obama made just a short while ago, joined by Governors Jennifer Granholm (MI), Deval Patrick (MA) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (CA), members of Congress and Ron ...

