DOT Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:13:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 President Obama Announces Fuel Economy Standards for Heavy Truck Fleet https://www.greenoptimistic.com/president-obama-announces-fuel-economy-standards-heavy-truck-fleet-20140219/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/president-obama-announces-fuel-economy-standards-heavy-truck-fleet-20140219/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:13:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46030 United States President Barack Obama has a few more things to do before he leaves office in 2016, one of which is continuing fuel economy reforms to reduce emissions and petroleum imports. Container ships and cargo trains may be the first two steps in the logistics of the United States, but the heavy duty truck […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/president-obama-announces-fuel-economy-standards-heavy-truck-fleet-20140219/feed/ 0 46030 EPA to Update Fuel Economy Rating Method for Hybrid Vehicles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/epa-to-update-fuel-economy-rating-method-for-hybrid-vehicles-20130816/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/epa-to-update-fuel-economy-rating-method-for-hybrid-vehicles-20130816/#respond Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:42:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=40735 With recent claims by consumers that their hybrid vehicles aren’t living up to the standard set on the Environmental Protection Agency / Department of Energy [EPA/DOT] Fuel Economy and Environment label, some updating of the testing rules needs to be done. Updating indeed, as the regulation currently in use was implemented in 1970, long before […]

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