EPA proposes grading system for car fuel economy




The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation on Monday proposed a fuel economy label overhaul to

reflect how electric and alternative fuel vehicles stack up against gasoline passenger vehicles.

The federal agencies released two new labels that officials expect to be finalized early next year and used in 2012 model

year cars. The published labels will be available for public comment for 60 days.

The changed label, mandated by the 2007 energy law, includes the same information on city and highway miles per gallon and

estimated driving costs based on 15,000 miles a year now available.

 (Credit: Environmental Protection Agency) But the new labels add more comparative information, rating cars on mileage,

greenhouse gas contribution, and other air pollutants from tailpipe emissions. That means that consumers can look at a label

to see how one vehicle compares to all available vehicles, rather than only cars in a specific class.

One label proposes grades, ranging from and A plus to a D. There are no failing grades, since vehicles need to comply with

the Clean Air Act.

"The idea of the grade is to give a single metric that combines greenhouse gases and fuel economy into one metric," said EPA

cheap wow power leveling assistant administrator Gina McCarthy.

"We will have information underlying those grades available to consumers when the labels are in place."

The proposed labels address one of the outstanding problems of rating the fuel efficiency with vehicles that don't use

gasoline as a fuel source.

General Motors brought the issue into the public spotlight last year, when it said it expected to get a fuel economy rating

of 230 miles per gallon for the electric Chevy Volt. As of now, however, the mileage rating for the Volt and the all-electric

Nissan Leaf still are not yet certified.

EPA and DOT officials did say plug-in vehicles will have different labels than gasoline-only cars, which will include a

miles-per-gallon equivalent number. The electric-car label also includes the anticipated driving range and efficiency

expressed in kilowatt-hours per 100 miles.

Making the grade
During a media briefing on Monday, McCarthy said the median grade for passenger cars will be a B-minus which equates to

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Electric vehicles that run entirely off of batteries, such as the Leaf, will have a rating of A-plus. Plug-in hybrid vehicles

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The EPA has modeled where existing cars will fall along the grading bell curve. Hybrids such as the Ford Fusion, Honda Civic,

and Toyota Prius will get an A-minus, which a MPG rating between 40 and 58. Fuel-efficient cars such as the Nissan Altima,

Toyota Corolla, and Volkswagen Golf will be given a B-plus for mileage between 30 and 30 miles per gallon. (Click PDF to see

the full list of mileage and grades.)

Grades for midsize sedans will range from A-minus to D, and those for SUVs will range from B-plus to D, McCarthy said. High-

performance sports and luxury cars, such as Ferraris will get a D rating, where mileage is 12 miles per gallon or lower.

The fuel economy ratings address only tailpipe emissions, and not the "upstream" energy use and pollution related to

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There are also ratings for compressed natural gas vehicles, diesels, and different types of plug-in hybrids, including both

the extended-range electric vehicle of the Chevy Volt and Fisker Karma, and plug-in versions of conventional hybrids. (Click

PDF of all labels.)

By the time the labels are finalized, the EPA and DOT hope to have a Web site available where consumers could get more

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person could get an accurate idea of the car's environmental impact, or the cost associated from using electricity to fuel

it.

The agencies are seeking consumer feedback through the e-mail newlabels@epa.gov.

In reaction to the announcement, both General Motors and Ford said they are evaluating the label designs and will continue to

work with the EPA and Department of Transportation to provide meaningful labels for consumers.

"Because the Volt under most circumstances does not use gasoline, the challenge at hand for consumers, automakers and

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iTunes song samples may double in length





Steve Jobs could announce that iTunes will give users more time to sample songs.

(Credit: James Martin/CNET)
Apple's iTunes, the largest music retailer, will boost the amount of time users are allowed to sample a song, sources told

CNET on Monday.

On Wednesday, when Apple CEO Steve
wow levelingJobs takes the stage at the company's annual

September media event, he is expected to

announce that iTunes users will be allowed at least twice the amount of time to sample a song, according to multiple sources

with knowledge of the move.

An Apple spokesman said the company doesn't comment on speculation and rumor.

Currently, iTunes offers 30-second snippets of songs, a feature designed to give users a taste of the music to help them

decide whether they like it enough to buy. Some users have long complained that half a minute isn't enough time to really

hear a song.

Numerous other digital-music services offer much more time, including Pandora and Google's YouTube. Pandora has become a

leader in digital radio, and while a user can't pick and choose which songs they want to listen to, they do get to hear full

-length songs free of charge. By contrast, YouTube users do choose which full-length songs they want to hear by picking

whatever music video they want, but these songs can't be legally captured or transferred to digital-music players.

While Apple offers the Genius Mix, a song recommendation engine, music consumers know that they can go elsewhere and be given

more of a chance to try out a song.
cheap wow powerlevelingThis could give YouTube and Pandora an

advantage, as iTunes is not the starting point in

the song-purchasing process.

According to the sources, Jobs and Apple will focus a large part of Wednesday's gathering on how the company is improving

iTunes' music discovery experience.

Don't expect cloudy Wednesday?
For those who are hoping Apple will finally launch the cloud music service that CNET and others have written so much about in

recent months, you're likely going to have to keep waiting. Apple still hasn't obtained the licenses the major music labels

would require iTunes to acquire to allow users to store their music libraries on the company's servers and then access them

from Web-enabled devices, according to multiple music industry sources.

That said, there is a small chance that Apple executives could decide that they don't need new licensing. There are some who

believe that neither Apple nor any other music service should have to pay to store and deliver songs that people presumably

legally acquired. The legal questions involved have yet to be answered by the courts.

If Apple decides to challenge the labels on this issue, then it would likely mean a major legal confrontation with the top

four record labels, music industry
wow powerleveling service sources said. It's hard to figure that Apple would risk a

fight like that.

In past talks with the recording companies, Apple has proposed offering cloud services free of charge. It's not something

that would generate a lot of money, at least initially.

Earlier this year, CNET reported that Apple wants to offer users digital shelves by which to store digital music, video, and

all their media. Executives there have said a server farm being constructed in North Carolina will be completed by the end of

the year, and many expect this to be the backbone of the iTunes cloud. Some have taken to calling this facility Apple's

Orchard.

But before Apple can make this dream a reality, it has to get the Hollywood studios, book publishers, and record labels on

board.

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