The Automobile Industry hopes to have mpg in the 30s by 2016. By 2025 the industry hopes to have this numbers basically doubled.

The two main ways to increase gas milage that the industry is looking into is electricity and a start-stop engine. An electric car would run on electricity which would need to be charged every once in awhile. A  start-stop engine is an engine that stops when the car is not in motion to avoid gas waste. Although electric cars are now a common thing people are still uneasy about the start-stop engine. What happens if the engine doesn’t start again and the car is stuck?  Automobile companies are still try to find ways to get around this. Engines cannot start all at once so what happens if someone in a traffic jam wants to move into an opening? Before this is common practice companies need to learn more about it. Basically there isn’t really a best way to increase gas milage without building an entire new engine.

MPG is tested in a lab where a car is run in a simulator that goes through different environments and different speeds.

Many people are afraid of the cost because if the technology of a car is more high tech it is more expensive. The industry argues with that even though the car is more expensive the savings in gas will be tremendous. Therefore once the car is paid off it will be worth because u will be cutting your gas bills in half.

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