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- Is Obama Out of Bounds on Climate Change?
- Did President Obama exceed his authority by announcing a fuel economy goalâ€"35.5 miles per gallon fleet averageâ€"for automakers in 2016? The goal (which works out to 30 mpg for trucks, 39 for cars) is part of a sweeping and unprecedented rulemaking announced earlier this week that combines Corporate Average Fuel...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Auto Dealers, U.S. Chamber Take on California Climate Regulation
- Although automakers essentially signed a peace treaty last May with the Obama administration and the state of California, some arms of the industry don’t seem to have gotten the olive branch. On Tuesday, the National Automobile Dealers Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce quietly filed a preliminary...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Auto Industry and Green Groups Agree on Landmark Climate Policy
- In a swift bit of Congressional maneuvering September 24, the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed amendment from longtime global warming skeptic Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that would have effectively killed President Obama’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. What’s interesting is that the auto industry itself opposed...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Unpredictable Oil Prices: Bad for Business?
- As we move toward the Memorial Day weekend, who knows exactly what a gallon of gasoline will cost? As I write this, oil pricesâ€"after rising steadily for the last several weeksâ€"have started to slide, based on data suggesting the economic recovery may take longer than previously thought. June delivery oil...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Obama to Issue Federal Greenhouse Gas Tailpipe Standards
- The White House will announce tomorrow a broad new federal standard for regulating greenhouse gas from cars and trucks. Assuming my sources are correct, the standard will be 30 mpg for trucks and 39 mpg for cars by 2016â€"roughly equivalent to the California standards (known as “Pavley†after the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
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- California to Regulate Tailpipe Greenhouse Gas
- If there was any doubt that tomorrow’s cars will be a lot cleaner and greener than today’s, it was erased yesterday when the Environmental Protection Agency granted California the right (from this year to 2016) to enforce tough greenhouse gas standards for tailpipes. The move had been widely expected, but the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- It's Getting Hot in Here: The High-Stakes Debate Over Fuel Economy and Climate Standards
- Sometimes you have to read between the lines of public hearing testimony, and that’s never truer than in the high-stakes negotiations over fuel-economy and climate standards. Automotive Corporate Average Fuel Economy CAFE standards have been notoriously stagnant, barely changing for 20 years. But in May, automakers, the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- EPA Transportation and Air Quality Chief Talks to BNET Autos About 35.5 MPG
- Margo Oge , a Toyota Prius driver, is the director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s office of transportation and air quality, and she sat down with BNET Autos just after a public hearing on the EPA and Department of Transportation’s proposed standards mandating that cars sold in the U.S. reach...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- What Happened to the Hydrogen Highway?
- We were supposed to be riding on a broad hydrogen highway by now, but instead it looks more like a local road that got bypassed by the interstate. The momentum appears to be behind battery electric cars and plug-in hybrids for at least the near future, though some pundits hold...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Paint it Green: Automakers Adjust Their Climate Argument
- The auto industry is still strongly opposed to granting California a waiver to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks which essentially means regulating fuel economy, but now it is approaching the matter from a distinctly green point of view. The issue has deadline urgency, because,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Cash for Clunkers Pilfers Renewable Energy Loan Program
- Cash for clunkers, the popular federal car trade-in program that ripped through $1 billion in a less than a month, has been extended thanks to money pilfered from a different stimulus fund that provides loan guarantees to clean energy projects. The Senate approved Thursday night extending the clunkers program by providing another $2 billion,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Fuel-Thrifty BMW Benefits From EPA's "German Provision"
- BMW is proud of what it describes as a 14 percent fuel economy jump in its U.S. car fleet between 1990 and 2005. In Europe, that improvement was even better in the same time frame, at 16 percent. In 2007, BMW AG’s fuel economy improved at four times the average...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Ford Hybrid Sales Strong in September: Thanks to the Fusion/Milan
- Ford just released its hybrid car sales figures for September, and they were up 78 percent from the same month last year. This is hardly surprising, because Ford introduced the Fusion and Mercury Milan Hybrids (as 2010 models) this fall, and they’ve found their way into a plethora of taxi...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Predicting the 2020 EV Market: Consider the Wild Cards
- It’s always fun to predict the future, and the beauty is that if you are projecting far enough ahead no one’s likely to remember what you’d saidâ€"even if turned out to be egregiously wrong. How many battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and just plain hybrids will sell...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Toyota Hedges its Bets on Plug-In Hybrids (Part Two)
- My post earlier this week on Toyota’s problems with plug-in hybrid cars apparently hit a nerve with a lot of readers. Yes, some influential voices in the American branch of the company question whether plug-ins make senseâ€"largely because they add weight, cost and complexity. But Toyota spokesman...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- More Ethanol in Gasoline? Automakers say it will "Damage" Cars
- Some 54 ethanol producers, grouped together under Growth Energy’s banner, are carrying the torch for dramatically increasing the amount of ethanol in pump gasoline from 10 to 15 percent. Will they succeed? There are technical and political arguments to be made on both sides, but for now the momentum seems...
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Ontario, Home to Major Automakers, Invests in Homegrown Electric Cars
- The city of Windsor, Ontario is a short tunnel ride from downtown Detroit, and the province of Ontario is home to a major automobile industry. A 2006 survey pointed out that Ontario actually builds more cars than Michigan does. According to the survey, the province builds 2.5 million cars...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Batteries vs. Fuel Cells: A Tale of Unequal Federal Funding
- Both electric and fuel-cell cars are set to hit the market, but only the first one is getting any direct federal support. The Department of Energy is investing not only in battery electric cars, but in the plants that make their batteries. And yes, the DOE is also supporting hydrogen...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
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