Greater reliance on natural gas-fueled light duty vehicles is possible but will require more time due to greater infrastructure requirements and technological innovation.
To understand individual consumption, we need data on the percentage of light duty vehicle miles specifically for passenger use (versus business or government fleet use).
Non-technical users who want to snack on digital movies, thumb through their email, and do some light duty surfing are going to dig this thing.
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Other creative opportunities being explored include natural gas pumps (hooked up to the home) to fuel natural gas vehicles, and light duty vehicles relying on fuel cells (which manufacturers hope to begin building by 2015).
Aside from heavy-duty pickups, only about 3% of U.S. light-duty vehicles are powered by diesel today.
We've established an historic fuel economy standard for model years 2012-2016 for light-duty trucks and cars.
The report projects that by 2040, alternative fuel vehicles will consume about 13.7% of our light-duty vehicle fuel.
New technologies and alternate fuels promise to make driving light-duty vehicles a cleaner experience with every passing year.
The light-duty car category excludes some pickup trucks that are marketed to consumers, like the Ford F250 and F350 models.
It also wants to put in place a fleet-wide fuel economy standard of 35.5 miles per gallon for light-duty vehicles by 2016.
In August, the Obama administration completed rules setting national fuel economy standards at 54.5 mpg for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025.
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Following the summer's seasonal manufacturing shutdowns, higher light-duty diesel product sales were offset by lower sales of heavy-duty diesel filters and substrates.
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Germany's Robert Bosch, a major supplier of critical diesel components, forecasts diesel penetration in light-duty pickups and SUVs will reach 20% by 2015.
Not every smart phone will do: Apple's iPhone, for example, lacks the ability to cut and paste--a must for even light-duty editing and writing.
According to data compiled by the new-car-buying website TrueCar.com, the average transaction price for cars and light-duty trucks in the United States is on the rise.
For example, updated fuel efficiency standards for light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles were incorporated in AEO2012 and AEO2013, tending to lower CO2 emissions relative to earlier projections.
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C. to announce the next round of a coordinated national program to improve fuel efficiency for cars and light-duty trucks for model years 2017 to 2025.
The legality of that EPA rule, and another that imposes new restrictions on light-duty truck emissions, is currently being challenged through a number of law suits.
Under the proposal, model year 2017-2025 cars and light-duty trucks are expected to achieve increases in fuel efficiency equivalent to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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Unlike the light-duty vehicle market, most medium- and heavy-duty truck purchasers operate on slim profit margins where fuel costs are a major factor in their economic survival.
When looking at SUTs, a category that would seem to offer a lot to those with light-duty truck needs but heavy-duty families, the Avalanche takes the high ground.
This agreement forges historic -- was an historic agreement that nearly doubled fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon for cars and light-duty trucks by model year 2025.
In other words, conventional fuel (gasoline and diesel) light-duty vehicles will be with us for many years to come, exhaling pollutants and making the world a dirtier place.
The EPA does not, and cannot, verify mileage numbers for the majority of light-duty vehicles (though I imagine there's a Ford C-Max Hybrid on the dynamometers in Michigan right now).
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Its engine segment (49% of net sales in 2010) produces a wide range of engines that run on diesel and natural gas used in heavy-, medium- and light-duty trucks, buses, automobiles, RVs, and industrial vehicles.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) have formally announced their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for model year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light-duty trucks.
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Already, the Obama Administration has made historic progress through investments in clean energy, new fuel economy standards for cars and light-duty trucks that will save approximately 1.8 billion barrels of oil, and steps toward the first-ever fuel economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
In restructuring its assets, the Army should retain not more than six active duty light divisions to include the two airborne divisions.
There have been ideas about increasing energy-efficiency standards in buildings much as Carol has worked tirelessly to do with cars, light trucks and heavy duty trucks for the very first time.
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