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The White House today will boost fuel-economy standards for light vehicles to 27.3 mpg for 2011, media reports said.
Cars will be required to travel an average of 30.2 miles on a gallon of fuel, up from 27.5 mpg, and light truck standards will increase by 1 mpg to 24.1 mpg, according to the reports. The combined fleet average will rise 2 mpg.
The rules will be the first fuel-economy mandates set by the Obama administration. They stem from a U.S. energy law, enacted in December 2007, that will lift standards 40 percent by 2020 to a fleetwide average of at least 35 mpg.
In January, President George W. Bush decided not to establish the first phase of that increase because of the industry's financial straits and passed the decision to his successor.
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