A federal appeals court for the District of Columbia rejected a petition to rehear a legal challenge to the EPA’s allowing introduction of gasoline with a 15% ethanol blend into the marketplace. The Jan. 15 ruling followed the US District Court’s earlier ruling that the American Petroleum Institute, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, and Independent […]
Ford Motor Co. said the Environmental Protection Agency may change its procedures for testing the mileage of hybrids. Several of Toyota Prius hybrid models showed even bigger fuel-economy shortfalls against the EPA estimates than the Ford Fusion hybrid and C-Max hybrid when tested for mileage in city driving by Consumer Reports magazine, Raj Nair, Ford’s […]
Chrysler Group is considering a second minivan variant as it works to hold onto its sales lead in the 30-year-old segment. “We’re not willing to give up any territory in the segment that we have today,” said Reid Bigland, Chrysler’s head of U.S. sales and CEO of the Dodge brand. He said Chrysler has nearly […]
Nearly a decade of declining road deaths has created complacency among state lawmakers, whose failure to enact stronger highway-safety laws leaves motorists at peril now that traffic fatalities are rising again, according to Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. In December, NHTSA released preliminary data showing that road deaths in the first nine months of […]
A University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute study compared road safety and related factors in the US with those in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, to identify actions most likely to produce casualty reductions in the US. The main differences concerned structural and cultural factors (such as vehicle distance driven), and procedural factors […]