The government continues to ratchet up demands for safety and fuel efficiency technologies.
Scenarios developed to examine uncertainty in technology advancement indicate that expected technology cost reductions over time will be insufficient to offset the costs of additional fuel efficiency technologies that could be used to meet the 2025 fuel economy target while maintaining other vehicle attributes.
Vehicle fuel efficiency technologies are, however, substantially underutilised; while some countries have made noticeable progress in this area, others have largely failed to do so [36].
(Obama has a much larger energy plan -- articulated in a sweeping speech today -- centered on investment in renewable energy and fuel efficiency technology.
Although automakers increased their use of fuel efficiency technology in 2014, they deployed it in only a few models, while outfitting their S.U.V.s and other light trucks with cheaper, outdated equipment.
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It ranked the Lincoln higher than the Lexus on all factors: consumer value, hybrid technology, fuel efficiency and pollution reduction.
The White House released a list of dozens of new executive actions in areas from the minimum wage for federal contractors to fuel efficiency standards to education technology.
After all, customers in disparate markets were already showing preferences for the same attributes in cars: safety, technology, fuel efficiency and appearance.
"We're thinking about everyone being better — not necessarily perfect," Ms. O'Neill said, noting that G.M. sells a number of vehicles that address fuel efficiency or feature hybrid technology.
Karl Plunkett, public relations director at the firm, says: "This particular model is ideal for our business; it does what we want it to do, in terms of technology, fuel efficiency and emissions, and from an aesthetic point of view over the 15 years we have been using them, our vans have become very well recognised in the London area".
