The report examines the major issues associated with developing new fuel economy standards. It builds on work that Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) conducted for its recently delivered report, Energy Technology Choices: Shaping Our Future, requested by the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its Subcommittee on Energy and Power. The Energy and Natural Resources Committee's request asked the authors to focus on the 10- to 15-year timeframe defined by current legislative initiatives for increased automobile fuel economy; in light of this short timeframe, their analysis of fuel economy potential accepts the general concept of the automobile and light truck loosely defined by the types and performance of vehicles in today's fleet. They note that this focus leaves out the potential to rethink the nature of the authors' personal transportation system and to possibly design an altered system of significantly higher fuel efficiency. OTA has considered this strategy of changing the nature of personal transportation in the United States in their 1986 report on Technology in the American Economic Transition. In addition, they will revisit the long-term question of U.S. transportation energy efficiency in an ongoing assessment, U.S. Energy Efficiency: Past Trends and Future Opportunities.


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    Title :

    Improving Automobile Fuel Economy: New Standards, New Approaches. Summary


    Publication date :

    1992


    Size :

    23 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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