The CAFÉ requirements may get increased to 60 miles per gallon by 2025. Current CAFE standards mandate that automobile makers hit 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. The mileage of the requirements are determined by all models made by a car maker getting averaged. Part of the formula is also the emissions per unit of gas consumed.
Incorporating in new requirements along with old requirements
One of the platforms that Obama ran for president on was improving energy standards. 35.5 mpg could be the standard for gas by 2016. This is because of White House regulations already passed. According to USA Today ,the White House is going to make an effort to raise them again. The automakers may be required to hit 60 mpg by 2025. This would be if everything goes according to plan. These standards haven’t come out yet. The new CAFE Standards wouldn’t pass into law until 2011 or 2012.
Determining what the standards are
These fuel economy standards are call Corporate Average Gas mileage, or CAFÉ. CAFE Standards, according to Wikipedia, do not dictate what each and every model has to get. It ends up getting the average use of gasoline each vehicle a manufacturer has on the road is using. The first regulations were passed a long time ago. In fact, it happened in 1975. The last significant CAFE standard increase was in 1990, when standards were raised to 27.5 miles per gallon. In 2011, standards will increase to 30.2 miles per gallon.
Legislative intent
The reason for this law would be so automakers make more hybrids and electric cars by force. Then there are the catches. There are a few. Not everybody is going to be able to simply buy a whole new automobile. Electric and Hybrid cars aren’t even doing well enough right now for that. A full sized pickup is a vehicle lots of people require for work. It is big enough to tow heavy loads and large enough to get into hard to reach places.
Info from
USA Today
content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/09/60-mpg-required-by-2025—/1
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Average_Fuel_Economy
