FobzyFuel-efficient autos - still a no go zone despite rising fuel costs
March 31st 2011 23:47
The 2011 Ford Explorer.
Despite rising gas prices and new electric cars and hybrids, the fuel economy of Americans’ new vehicles stagnated last year.
The Environmental Protection Agency found that the industrywide average for vehicles sold last year improved only slightly to 22.5 from 22.4 mpg based on automakers’ projection of 2010 model-year sales.
With regular gasoline now averaging $3.60 a gallon nationally — up from a 2010 average of $2.84 — car buyers are thinking more about fuel economy than they were last year. But replacing a large vehicle with a much smaller one is further than many buyers are going.
Hybrid sales actually shrank from 2.9% of new vehicle sales in 2009 to 2.4% last year.
From: USA today
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