Politicians are loath to raise gasoline taxes, which would force people to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Chevrolet provides customers with fuel-efficient vehicles that feature spirited performance, expressive design, and high quality.
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Other green initiatives included promoting fuel-efficient vehicles, rail transport, electricity grid improvements, and pollution control.
At the time, GM desperately needed smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles and they became its sole focus.
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One area of interest for the auto industry is trying to reinterpret colors associated with fuel-efficient vehicles.
China has also raised taxes on gasoline and diesel and reduced the sales tax on more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Is it a coincidence that sales of hybrid, electrified and fuel-efficient vehicles increased as gas prices trended upwards?
They do predict that the sales mix will lean toward more fuel-efficient vehicles.
The loans to Ford will help the company upgrade factories in five Midwest states to produce 13 fuel-efficient vehicles.
As automakers hire the people that will design and build more fuel-efficient vehicles, their efforts will spur both employment and sales.
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Under the previously adopted 2012-2016 standards, they are already offering buyers a wider selection of more fuel-efficient vehicles than ever before.
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Recently high gas prices have at least put Detroit on notice that it needs to come up with more fuel-efficient vehicles.
The communist government is promoting auto manufacturing and ownership but has tried to fine-tune policies to encourage sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
The five electrified vehicles Ford is launchingfall in line with its goal of providing customers with power of choice when it comes to fuel-efficient vehicles.
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In order to receive those funds, the companies have to be economically "viable" and the money has to be used to produce more fuel-efficient vehicles.
McCain also said the government should use its purchasing power to promote energy efficiency, buying fuel-efficient vehicles and retrofitting federal offices to use less electricity.
Much will depend on whether China's motorists decide to choose smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles favored in Japan and Europe or the larger gas guzzlers driven by Americans.
As part of its stimulus package, China provided incentives for those in its rural economy to trade in their less fuel-efficient vehicles for more conventional means of transportation.
Executives at GM and Chrysler touted demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles in the face of climbing gasoline prices as a key driver of March sales alongside an improving U.S. economy.
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People are curtailing their credit and their spending, so maybe they'll just continue to buy fuel-efficient vehicles or not drive as much because the economy is not doing so well.
"What I think we really need to focus on are more fuel-efficient vehicles, better city planning for the number and types of vehicles on the road, and more public transportation options, " Curtis Lewis said.
Under the terms of the expected agreement, Fiat will not pay anything for its Chrysler stake, and instead the US company will gain access to Fiat's technology and expertise in making smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Ford will do the same refitting job to two other North American truck plants in a multibillion-dollar gamble that America's love affair with the SUV is over and that smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles are here to stay.
Mr. Gates scrapped much of the Army's multibillion dollar Future Combat Systems, after it became clear that its lighter, faster, more fuel-efficient vehicles would not do much to protect soldiers from the threat of improvised explosive devices.
In 2008, while automakers plodded along with the same old gas-guzzling models as the price at the pump hit record highs, American consumers scrambled for more fuel-efficient vehicles and left the gas-guzzlers to collect dust on the showroom floor.
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The fierce battle for car buyers in Brazil could influence other markets before long, including mature ones like the U.S. Sluggish economies and rising fuel prices are prompting more consumers around the globe to seek smaller, less expensive and more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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In the first poll of their views, carried out in May this year, 76% of these sportsmen said they had personally noticed climate change, and 78% said that the right way to address America's energy needs was to conserve more, develop fuel-efficient vehicles and use more renewables.
Secondly, I think there are things the government has a public interest in having the industry do, making these payments into the trust funds that will take over the retiree healthcares, some of the goals on perhaps even exceeding the current requirements for fuel-efficient vehicles or developing alternative fuel vehicles.
And that's why we've got to pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy that includes investing in more biofuels and more fuel-efficient vehicles, and more solar power and more wind power, and more people going back to work building cars and homes and businesses that are more energy efficient than the ones that we've got right now.
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Instead of simply limiting foreign imports or adding federal taxes to fuel costs to give consumers an incentive to buy more fuel-efficient vehicles, the government instituted byzantine regulations that required American manufacturers to build (or at least market) fuel-efficient cars just so they could continue selling the cars and trucks they were already known for.
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