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WASHINGTON | Big tractor-trailer trucks will have to get 20 percent more miles per gallon by the 2018 model year under the nation's first fuel-economy rules for heavy vehicles, announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama.
The rules mimic the "light duty" fuel-economy standards for cars and sport-utility vehicles that have been in place since 1975. But they are more complex, tailored to cover vehicles including garbage trucks, which must get a 10 percent improvement, and pickups and vans too big to be covered by the existing rules, which must now make a 15 percent improvement.See the full content of this document
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New Rules Require Big Trucks to Boost Fuel Efficiency by 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency said that the rules would cost vehicle buyers $8 billion, but that ...
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