The car industry is under pressure to improve fuel efficiency. It is not that they have been sitting on their thumbs. Automakers have achieved large increases in fuel efficiency through better technology in recent decades, says MIT economist Christopher Knittel.
The problem is:
“Most of that technological progress has gone into compensating for weight and horsepower.”
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Tagged as Bertel Schmitt, CAFE, Fuel Economy, Knittel, MIT, weight
Tagged as Bertel Schmitt, CAFE, Fuel Economy, Knittel, MIT, weight
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