Automobile manufactures have been disclosing their sales results for years, but for the first time, Hyundai has gone one step further. For September, the company’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) as well as its window-label fuel economy results have been revealed. The CAFE standards are federal implemented fuel economy averages that manufactures should meet. Window-label averages are just that: the average mpg listed on vehicle’s window sticker.
For September, Hyundai averaged 36.5 mpg via CAFE. That’s right on par with the current standard and Hyundai’s fight to bring more and more vehicles that get 40 mpg on the highway to the market is clearly helping. With a window-label average of 27.6 mpg, the newly released information shows a slightly more realistic viewing on mpg. According to John Krafcik, Hyundai Motor America’s president and CEO, this was done so “stakeholders can better understand the very real difference between these two metrics. He went on to say, “At the beginning of the year, we began reporting monthly sales-weighted Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) results, to allow journalist, policy-makers, and consumers the ability to judge our progress against the evolving CAFE standards.”
Source: Hyundai
