US President Barack Obama, with the support of large automakers, announced a plan Friday to increase the average fuel consumption of new cars and trucks at 35.1 miles per gallon by 2025, twice the current level.
"This agreement represents the most important step, fuel standards, we as a nation reduce its dependence on foreign oil, when they took," Obama said Washington event with the top automaker's management and Union leaders.
New standards are the result of a compromise with the sector after the White House initially proposed even stricter requirements, which would increase the corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, Standard 62 mpg.
The plan announced Friday the fleetwide average of 34.3 mpg-wagons for the higher and lower for the "light commercial vehicles," a category that includes pickups and sports also remove the vehicle.
The standard fleet stands at 27.5 two decades before it was raised under the Obama administration, which increase from 30.2 this 33.5 mpg in 2016 model. The new rules would require further improvement of 5% of annual consumption of fuel a car from 2017 to the year 2025. For light trucks, the standard 3.5 percent rise year by year 2017, 2021, and 5 percent per year from 2021 to 2025.
The White House said that the new rules have won backing car companies, representing 90 percent of cars sold in the United States.
The compromise was a bit of a surprise, and he looked unlikely, even a few days ago, TheDetroitBureau.com. According to David Strickland, the head of the national traffic safety Administration's Highway, the major parties signed the definitive language until almost midnight on Thursday.
Some automakers and analysts warned that the new technologies require standards add cost thousands of dollars on a new car. But the White House says it will be offset by the savings at the pump, which it said would average $ 8,000 during the life of the vehicle by the year 2025.
The White House, which is based on the gas prices rising a modest 13% from 2015 to the vehicles being driven an average of 15 000 per year and 2025.
"We share the Administration's objective to achieve major advances in clean, fuel-efficient," said Jim Lentz, Toyota. "Of course, there is still a lot of uncertainty about how to respond to the market and what vehicles consumers accept technology, which is the reason why we are implementing and testing a number of alternative fuels options."
Environmental groups welcomed the new standards, but said he could be even stronger.
The group, the American Council for an energy-efficient economy, stressed that the actual distance achieved by cars and light trucks in the 2020s controller will be much lower than the published CAFE standards, which are based on laboratory tests, and not on the actual road performance.
"It is a significant step in reducing our dependence on oil and consumer vulnerability to high gasoline costs," said Therese Langer, Director of the programme for the ACEEE. "In the year 2030, this round of standards to save more oil than at present, we import from Saudi Arabia and Iraq together."
But she added that the advertised standards "could be violated" in the process of identifying, before they are completed. Notice of proposed the determination will be published by the end of September, open a public comment period, federal officials said.
"In the next few months will be crucial for ensuring that the benefits of this program promises are made," said Langer.
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