10 Most Fuel-Efficient SUVs You Can Buy - TheStreet.com
Vehicle fuel efficiency standards are inching toward the Environmental Protection Agency's goal of a combined 54. 5 miles per gallon for company fleets by 2025, but moving the trucked-up SUV to a car's frame and dubbing it a “crossover” has helped... That's still less than halfway to the EPA and Department of Transportation's goal that it set back in 2012, but it beats the roughly 19 miles per gallon that the Department of Transportation measured for the same pool of vehicles in 1995. It's... Automakers sold more than 2. 5 million of them in the U. S. through July -- with a big assist from fuel prices that are down an average of 90 cents per gallon from this time a year ago. That makes crossovers the single largest class of vehicle ahead of midsize cars (2. 1 million sold through July), small cars (1. 9 million) pickups (1. 4 million) and all non-crossover SUVs combined (970,000). Crossover sales are up 14%... According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the six-cylinder, supercharged Volkswagen Toureg Hybrid -- a car that doesn't even rely on its gas-powered engine 100% of the time -- still only manages a scant 21 miles per gallon combined. That's the same mileage as a four-wheel-drive Nissan Pathfinder, which isn't exactly a bastion of fuel economy. Source: www.thestreet.com
