.......what will farmers and contractors just to name a few be able to work......
There will be small turbocharged diesel engines that will get much better milage than the present gas engines.
I have such a vehicle, a Sprinter van.. It has a Mercedes turbo diesel engine that gets 23 mpg at 70 mph cruise and 22 around town. It is three years old and not the current technology.
My big van gets the milage of a Honda CRV of the same age.
Even the experts interviewed on NPR yesterday brought up the fact that these new standards *will* raise car prices if we don’t compromise safety. I had to chuckle at the “advanced” technology offered up for our eco-salvation: Turbochargers! So we’re going back to what, the late 80’s? Since only a small amount of R&D funds are going to be spent on this off-the-shelf “technology”, it would appear the auto manufacturers stand to make some money off this. I would have expected a lot more pushback from the auto manufacturers had Obama’s standards required truly new technology or a radical departure from current designs.