fuel economy testing Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:15:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Audi A2, Fuel Economy Ahead of its Time https://www.greenoptimistic.com/audi-a2-fuel-economy-ahead-time-20140804/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/audi-a2-fuel-economy-ahead-time-20140804/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:15:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48744 The more we talk about improving transportation emissions, the more we have to talk about fuel economy and how to achieve better numbers. Considering that we’ve been steadily improving fuel economy here in the US, it does one well to take a look at some of the technologies being used to achieve such goals. Citycars, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/audi-a2-fuel-economy-ahead-time-20140804/feed/ 1 48744 EPA Suggests Actually Testing Automobile Fuel Economy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/epa-suggests-actually-testing-automobile-fuel-economy-20140715/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/epa-suggests-actually-testing-automobile-fuel-economy-20140715/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:16:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48534 It’s long been known that the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) doesn’t actually test most of the cars before it assigns the “official”-ish fuel economy rating sticker, but recent difficulties are pushing the EPA to do better. For the most part, the EPA may do real-world testing of only a few cars per year. For the […]

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