IEA: New Car Fuel Consumption Could Be Halved

[eridani]

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The world's new cars could use half as much as much fuel as they do now in 20 years, if current technologies are more widely adopted, according to the International Energy Agency.

In a pair of reports issued Wednesday the agency said with aggressive new policies, the world could stabilize its oil consumption even if the number of vehicles on the road doubles by 2050. Without those policies, cars and trucks would consume twice the amount of oil they do today.

Half the world's oil — about 45 million barrels per day — is used to make the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel needed to drive, ship or fly.

[liberal N proud]

1. Link is broken - Try this

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[hunter]

2. At least 90% of my family's car trips could be comfortably done at 35mph.

Whenever we're running errands or driving to jobs in town we're dragging around a lot of horsepower that's never used.

With a few tweaks to our road system we could make ultra-high efficiency vehicles a very attractive option.

Ultimately we ought to be looking to recreate our cities in ways that make car ownership unnecessary and undesirable, but very high efficiency cars that are not built to cruise all day at 85mph down the interstate might be part of a gradual transition to an economy without automobiles.

[AverageJoe90]

3. You can have very high efficiency AND high cruising speed.

The only question is, how?