The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the NRDC and the Sierra Club in their suit seeking to force the administration to enforce fines against car manufacturers who don’t meet current fuel economy guidelines.
Now that the other talking points have been mostly expended, PSA Group CEO Carlos Tavares has moved on to a last-ditch effort. He is arguing against the European Union’s planned 2020 carbon dioxide auto industry fines (if compliance with fleet-level fuel-efficiency goals aren’t met) by saying that such a course of action will “create a Chinese Trojan Horse.”
GM will be ceasing production of the subcompact Chevy Sonic within the near future, and ceasing production of the Chevy Impala within the next few years, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
The Association of Automobile Manufacturers has filed a report with the US DOT and NHTSA filled with lies and distortions provide by the fossil fuel industry.
Owing to a failure to meet government-set fuel consumption standards, authorities in a China are shutting down the production of 553 passenger vehicle models as of January 1st, 2018, the state news agency Xinhua has revealed.
Households that purchase fuel-efficient cars tend to mostly undo their fuel economy benefits by purchasing a second and larger vehicle as compensation, according to a new analysis from researchers at the University of California—Davis, MIT, and Yale.
It’s beginning to look like our democracy is actually better defended against strong-man autocracy than I feared.
The constitution, the fourth estate, the rule of law, have all taken massive hits, but remain standing, and are even eking out surprising wins after literally “unpresidented” assaults from the Oval Office.
While commentators on earlier articles have accused me of putting words in Ford CEO Mark Fields’ mouth with regard to his stance on market demand for electric vehicles (EVs), I don’t think that there’s any doubt at this point that he isn’t pro-EVs, and isn’t too concerned with his company’s effect on the wider environment. For that matter, it seems hard to argue that he isn’t prone to stretching the truth quite a bit.
With the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump fast approaching, the Obama Administration has been “barreling ahead” with a number of planned auto industry regulation changes, according to recent reports.
In an “interesting” move, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has postponed a congressionally mandated increase in fines for auto manufacturers not in compliance with fuel economy standards until the 2019 model year. Previous to this decision, the fine increase was slated to go into effect for the 2015 model year (retroactively) and every year following.
