Opportunity is on CAFE's Menu

摘要

When new fuel efficiency regulations were finalized last year, the clock started ticking for automakers and their suppliers to increase fuel economy to the equivalent of 54.5 mpg for cars and light-duty trucks. That's nearly double what new cars and trucks get today. But this is a marathon, not a sprint. The final deadline to meet the new standards isn't until 2025. And the 54.5 mpg target isn't what you'll see in every vehicle you buy in 12 years. As its name implies, the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) is an average of automakers' fleets of vehicles, and the fuel economy is measured in a lab, which always returns more efficient results than the real world. On top of that, the targets can shift based on automakers' production tallies to allow them to produce the types of vehicles that people want to buy.