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Originally Posted by redpoint5
This highlights the absurdity of setting MPG requirements on the industry in the first place. What if an automotive company only builds trucks because that is their specialty? There's no reason they should be penalized or worse, not exist due to not being able to achieve arbitrary fleet MPG numbers. There are legitimate use cases for pickups.
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You seem to have missed this part:
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Originally Posted by JSH
]Good thing for the automakers that there no longer is one CAFE standard for all companies. Bush changed things way back in 2007 so that each vehicle sold has it's own CAFE requirement based on footprint (track x wheelbase) and whether it is classified as a car or a light truck. At the end of the year each company has their own CAFE standard calculated based on the actual mix of vehicle they sold in that year. This is why companies can kill off all their cars and still hit CAFE numbers.
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A company can sell nothing but full size trucks in 2025 and would meet CAFE if they averaged 23 mpg (EPA window sticker)
The RAM 1500 does that today with a 305 hp engine.