UMTRI: US New-Car Fuel Economy Averaged 25.3 MPG In 2014
The final numbers are in for new-car fuel economy in the United States for 2014, and they are better than they were in 2008.
According to Autoblog, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute found that the average U.S. fuel economy for a 2014 model landed at 25.3 mpg, 22 percent higher than six years ago.
The same percentage of improvement holds up when it comes to vehicles rated at 16 mpg or less, where only one in 30 new cars held that distinction. On the other end of the spectrum, one in six new cars garnered a rating of 32 mpg or above in 2014; only 1 percent could say the same in 2008.
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My 2012 Impala gets mpgs as advertised, sometimes better. The worst mpg I have gotten was 19 strictly around town - dead on. 30 on the highway - I have recently gotten 33 on a road trip. So I'd say the current EPA efforts at evaluating real-world fuel economy numbers are pretty accurate.
It is interesting this was achieved without the sky falling down. I am sorry the lovely V8s and even lusty V6s have been phased out but manufacturers seem to still provide fast and ever safer cars. It reminds me of the ease with which sulphur dioxide was removed from factory emissions such that pollution permits were soon worthless. Both energy and some US car firms whined about the regs but found out how to deal with them. Business is clever when it applies its intelligence. Presumably other problems that seem so intractable can be sorted out with similar ease if people work on it instead of looking for excuses.