After fighting fuel economy and emissions rules at both the federal and state levels for many years, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is finally coming out in favor of the new regulatory framework that will be announced by President Obama tomorrow. The biggest sticking point in recent years has been the move to try and block California and other states from effectively setting their own fuel economy standards by regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Tomorrow the president is expected to announce new federal rules that will effectively bring CAFE up to the same standard as the California proposal. Because the new rules will retain the footprint based standards that were in the California and 2008 NHTSA proposals, it won’t completely eliminate larger vehicles. It will however, be a tough standard with cars expected to hit 42 mpg by 2016 and trucks coming up to 26 mpg.
The alliance supports the proposal because it will allow automakers to work toward one set of regulations. The next big hurdle will be getting everyone to agree on a common standard for calculating the mileage of plug-in hybrid and extended range electric vehicles. The fuel consumption of those vehicles is highly dependent on the duty cycle including how often they are charged and how far they are driven past battery depletion. But that’s tomorrow’s fight. The AAM press release is after the jump.
[Source: Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers]
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