Safe Climate Campaign

...“The average car in 2025 will get the kind of mileage that today’s Toyota Prius hybrid gets, but we’re not talking about some futuristic technology,” said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, a Washington organization that promotes efforts to mitigate global warming. “Most of the changes will be invisible to the consumers and achieved with better engines, transmissions and aerodynamics.”...

...“The hybrid is slowly becoming a mainstream technology,” said Mr. Becker of Safe Climate Campaign. “I suspect there are some people who will never be comfortable with them, but their numbers are growing fewer and fewer.”

Mr. Becker also estimated that all-electric vehicles would compose about 5 percent of new-vehicle sales by 2025. “The automakers are going to need that number to reach the overall fleet average,” he said....

...“Some of these companies have fought higher fuel standards for years,” Mr. Becker said. “It’s gratifying to see the same companies now competing to achieve the highest fuel economy.”...