“The increased regulatory requirements for automakers require supportive policies,” said John Bozzella, CEO of the alliance. Under a 2012 regulation, the EPA had until April 2018 to decide whether to amend emissions regulations for the 2022-2025 model year, which require an average efficiency of more than 50 miles per gallon. In November, the agency pushed back the timeline for the proposal that automakers can meet 2025 standards. For the current model year, standards issued under Trump require the fleet of new vehicles to reach just under 28 miles per gallon in real-world driving conditions. The new requirements increase fuel consumption by 8% per year for the 2024 and 2025 model years and by 10% for the 2026 model year. The 2025 provision is not a new regulation, so the EPA under Trump would likely have to go through a thorough process before removing the provision, and could face lawsuits from environmental groups if they took that step. In a proposed decision jointly released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last Thursday, the agency has never granted such an explicit favor to companies to justify a new standard. The 978-page proposal says the EPA wants to freeze NHTSA`s targets for average corporate fuel economy (CAFE) and greenhouse gas emissions (set by the EPA) at 2020 model year levels. If approved, the EPA would maintain the industry average of 37 mpg for the nation`s passenger car and light-duty vehicle fleet for the 2021 to 2026 model years. Compare that to the Obama-era rule, which demanded an increase to 46.7 mpg by 2025. The widely used figure of 54.5 mpg dates back to 2012, when the EPA first approved the current requirements plan through model year 2025, and is only for passenger cars. The proposed new automatic average is 43.7 mpg. (All figures are based on older CAFE calculations and not current “actual” EPA estimates for new car window stickers.) Tell me, if the technology is not there by 2025, what will happen? Will it be illegal to sell cars? If you don`t want to “breathe poison,” stop contributing.
Do not drive a car. Cycle everywhere and live in the forest. Everyone seems to know what everyone needs to do, but never look in the mirror. In fact, when people start their computers and go to your website, CO2 is emitted into the air. Why do you contribute to poison? We should ban computers, cars, etc., if we really want to clean the air. I don`t think we`ll have to wait until 2025 to reach 54.5 mpg. Once one or two automakers claim to have beaten the rest of the pack there, the rest will quickly follow. The company`s new average fuel economy standards require an industry fleet average of approximately 49 mpg for passenger cars and light duty vehicles for the 2026 model year, the largest cost savings and fuel efficiency standards to date.
The new standards will increase fuel efficiency by 8% per year for model years 2024 to 2025 and 10% per year for model year 2026. They will also increase the estimated fleet-wide average for the 2026 model year by nearly 10 miles per gallon compared to the 2021 model year. But car dealerships say stricter requirements drive prices up and push people out of an already expensive new car market. NHTSA expects the new rules to increase the price of a new vehicle by $1,087 in the 2029 model year. On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed maintaining fuel economy standards that would gradually increase average mileage per gallon requirements for cars to 54.5 mpg by 2025. The Wall Street Journal notes that this translates to around 40mpg during actual driving. Some environmental groups have said the NHTSA`s new requirements under Biden don`t go far enough to combat global warming. Others have backed the new standards as a major step toward reducing emissions, with the American Lung Association calling for even stricter standards to drive the transition to all new zero-emission vehicles by 2035. “We`ve come a long way in five years,” Cuttino said, noting that lawmakers debated in 2007 whether the U.S. fleet could average 30 mpg by 2025.
“It gives me hope for energy policy in this country.” But the new standards will not immediately align with those adopted by 2025 under President Barack Obama. NHTSA officials said they would meet Obama`s standards by 2025 and slightly exceed them for the 2026 model year. The EPA projects that the requirements will cost between $150 billion and $240 billion by 2025 due to rising vehicle costs, but will save motorists $120 billion to $250 billion in fuel costs and have net benefits of $86 billion to $140 billion, including other things like improving public health and reducing pollution. According to EPA estimates, the proposed standards would reduce CO2 emissions by 2 billion tons over the lifetime of passenger cars sold between the 2017 and 2025 model years. By 2025, the standards would reduce U.S. oil consumption by 2.2 million barrels of oil per day compared to 2010, save $1.7 trillion in fuel costs, and result in average fuel savings of more than $8,000 per vehicle. These new standards were an extension of the company`s Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and create rules to increase the fuel consumption of the average fleet to 35.5 mpg in 2016 (previous standard in 2009) and 54.5 mpg in 2025. The Obama administration on Tuesday announced strict fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles, requiring the U.S. fleet to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, a non-controversial move that, unlike other government energy policies, has been backed by industry and environmentalists.
UPDATE 6/7/2019: A group of 17 automakers on Thursday sent letters to the Trump administration and California Governor Gavin Newsom, asking for a compromise between the Obama administration`s mandate of an average fuel economy of 54.5 mpg by 2025 and the withdrawal of that mandate by the current administration. Automakers fear states will enforce their own laws with higher standards to counter the new policy, essentially creating a divided auto market in the U.S., which could increase the cost of manufacturing vehicles for some regions. Automakers are demanding a compromise between the EPA and state governments, starting with California, which currently has the highest standards. We will have more information about this story as it develops. NHTSA sets fuel economy requirements, while the Environmental Protection Agency develops limits for greenhouse gas emissions. NHTSA officials said their requirements are close to the rules adopted by the EPA in December, so automakers don`t have to comply with two rules. 1. You know what`s better for people than them. 2. Since you know better, it`s okay to put a gun to their head and force them to do something.
3. The technology will be there to run a car at 54.5 MPG by 2025. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an industry trade group, estimated in December that automakers have pledged to invest $330 billion in the transition to electric vehicles by 2025. In July, the EPA said that because Americans have bought fewer cars and more SUVs and trucks, the fleet is estimated to average 50.8 mpg to 52.6 mpg in 2025. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Gina McCarthy decided Friday that President Barack Obama`s landmark energy efficiency rules should be established by 2025 to preserve a significant portion of her administration`s climate legacy. Major U.S. and foreign automakers have called on President-elect Donald Trump, who has criticized Obama`s climate policies, to review rules that require them to nearly double the fuel efficiency of the entire fleet by 2025 because they incur significant costs and don`t align with consumer preferences. Caldwell also cautioned that the EPA uses a different mileage calculation method for window stickers consumers see at a car dealership, so the estimate consumers should expect on window stickers in 2025 will be closer to 36 mpg. The 49 mpg standard, an improvement of about 33 percent over the current average of 36 mpg, applies to cars and light commercial vehicles such as pickup trucks and SUVs of the 2026 model year, which will arrive in showrooms in late 2025. This second phase of standards, which applies to the 2017 to 2025 model years, will double the efficiency of the U.S.
fleet compared to vehicles produced in 2008. The agency denied to the Detroit Free Press that it was trying to block future challenges to the rule, and in a statement on the EPA`s website, Administrator Gina McCarthy wrote that the decision was based on a detailed technical report released earlier this year that noted that automakers could meet the standards by 2025 if new technologies were available to them. McCarthy added that the analysis showed that, given current prices, it will be cheaper for automakers to meet these fuel economy standards by 2025 than the EPA estimated in 2012. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its new fuel economy requirements are the strictest to date and the maximum the industry can achieve during that time.