Comments on: Strict Fuel Economy Standards Placed On Chinese Auto Industry http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/22/strict-fuel-economy-standards-placed-on-chinese-auto-industry/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Ronald Brakels http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/22/strict-fuel-economy-standards-placed-on-chinese-auto-industry/#comment-155791 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:57:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49924#comment-155791 Personally I’ve been jonesing for improved Chinese efficiency standards for a long time. Where China goes, others will follow. EU standards have helped improve fuel efficiency in my country and China’s improved standards will do the same.

]]> By: jonesey jonesey http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/22/strict-fuel-economy-standards-placed-on-chinese-auto-industry/#comment-155776 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:03:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49924#comment-155776 “Long-awaited”? “Finally”? China has had better fuel economy standards than the US for many years.

Here’s a familiar person showing a graph in a screen shot from a film that we’ve all seen.

http://web.ncf.ca/jim/ref/inconvenientTruth/full/01_21_22.jpg

The US 2012 CAFE standard set a goal of 54 MPG by 2025. We might just catch up to China.

]]> By: JustSaying http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/22/strict-fuel-economy-standards-placed-on-chinese-auto-industry/#comment-155743 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49924#comment-155743 Now they need to move to low sulfur diesel like Europe/US/elsewhere.

]]> By: anderlan http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/22/strict-fuel-economy-standards-placed-on-chinese-auto-industry/#comment-155740 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:10:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49924#comment-155740 7.8L/100km = 30MPG (current average)
6.9L/100km = 34MPG (2015 goal)
5L/100km = 47MPG (2020 goal)

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