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Originally Posted by JamieGeek
CAFE standards only apply to "light duty" vehicles. Note that if you purchase an F-250 or an F-350 mpg is NOT on the window sticker. (Light duty vehicles = vehicles weighing less than 8800 lbs.) About the only thing that is regulated is the tailpipe emissions, but the fuel consumption is not.
Really its only now that medium and heavy duty vehicles are even remotely being considered for some sort of mileage standard.
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The other discussion occurring is basing the vehicles under CAFE standards on the square footage of the footprint rather than on GVWR and also reducing the square footage required for compliance. I guess some of the manufactures decided they could skirt the requirement by reducing the vehicle footprint and the government is going to respond.
The point I was making is there are tradeoffs. If adding the additional alternator increase fuel consumption from 8 to 6 MPG how many people are going to back away from the market.
Also, a 13,000 dollar option package at 2.50 per gallon will buy over 5,000 gallons of fuel, which at .9 gph of gen run time equates to 5777 hours. The break even point for me would be somewhere in 8 to never range. My prior coach had less than 300 hours on the generator and my current coach has less than 50.
For me to shell out that kind of money for a coach where I have to kneel in the aisle to load the refrigerator and never see a return on investment just doesn't make any sense outside the "cool factor". I buy practical and useful, I don't by cool especially since cool is usually short lived or constantly changing.
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