{"id":2676,"date":"2012-12-12T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:37:34","slug":"2013-annual-fuel-economy-guide-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/2013-annual-fuel-economy-guide-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Annual Fuel Economy Guide now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Energy Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 6 released the 2013 Fuel Economy Guide, giving consumers information to help them choose the most fuel-efficient and lowest greenhouse gas-emitting vehicles. The 2013 models include efficient and low-emission vehicles in a variety of classes and sizes, but notable this year is the growing availability of hybrids and the increasing number of electric vehicles (EV).<\/p>\n<p>The highest ranking vehicle this year was the <b>Scion iQ EV<\/b>, a minicompact with a <b>121 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) rating<\/b>  Other leaders included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best in midsized class &#8211; 2013 <strong>Ford C-Max Energi Plug-in Hybrid<\/strong> and 2013 <strong>Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid<\/strong> at <strong>58 MPGe<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best in large car class &#8211; 2013 <strong>Tesla Model S<\/strong> at <strong>95 MPGe<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best in midsized wagon class &#8211; 2013 Toyota Prius v at 42 MPG<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Fuel Economy web site<\/a> &#8211; the official US government source for fuel economy information, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\/feg\/findacar.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Find and compare cars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\/feg\/printGuides.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">View the 2013 Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\/m\" target=\"_blank\">mobile device-enabled version of the fuel economy web site<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Energy Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 6 released the 2013 Fuel Economy Guide, giving consumers information to help them choose the most fuel-efficient and lowest greenhouse gas-emitting vehicles. The 2013 models include efficient and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}