A group of leading automotive researchers working with the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has concluded that significant increases in fuel-economy standards for vehicles are possible with no loss of safety.

The group’s findings were released today in a report entitled “Sipping Fuel and Saving Lives: Increasing Fuel Economy without Sacrificing Safety” by Deborah Gordon, a transportation policy consultant; David L. Greene, a fuel-economy policy expert; Marc H. Ross, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Michigan; and Tom P. Wenzel, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The full study is linked above.

To read the report overview, Click here.

Background materials from the workshop may be found by visiting http://www.theicct.org/