Further fuel efficiencies will be had as the self-driving fleets adopt platooning technologies, like those from Peloton Technology, allowing trucks to draft behind one another in highway trains.
But in a nod to Republican moderates, the House will also allow a separate vote to further raise fuel efficiency standards in vehicles, a measure that is expected to be particularly divisive.
With the higher voltage, Ford will also introduce other technology that will allow air and gasoline to be mixed more precisely in engines -- further improving fuel efficiency and emissions.
A3 World Briefing A6 NATIONAL A12-18 House BArcticrctic Drilling In Victory for Bush's Plan The House passed a sweeping energy plan, voting to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and rejecting an effort to further raise fuel efficiency standards for vehicles.
In a second blow, the House split along regional lines and rejected, by a vote of 269 to 160, an effort to further increase fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, a measure vigorously opposed by car companies and workers in automobile unions.
This may be accomplished though any number of actions such as increased accessibility and reliance on public transportation in areas of high population density to more stringent emission standards that would further promote fuel efficiency.
Further improvements in fuel efficiency are essential for reducing our dependence on foreign oil and addressing global warming.
The president's new plan would order further improvements in fuel efficiency for cars and light trucks made in 2017 and beyond, and in medium and heavy trucks made in 2014 through 2018.
The plan Mr. Obama will announce on Friday will order further improvements in fuel efficiency for cars and light trucks made in 2017 and beyond, and in medium and heavy trucks made in 2014 through 2018.
Over the long term, GM like all auto companies needs to make further gains in fuel efficiency on these vehicles, whether through diesels, hybrids or new technologies.
