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Automobile label in the United States

The Monroney sticker or window sticker is a label required in the United States to be displayed in all new automobiles. It includes the listing of certain official information about the car. The window sticker was named after Almer Stillwell "Mike" Monroney, a United States Senator from Oklahoma.

As required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), with the introduction of advanced technology vehicles in the U. S. new information should be incorporated in the Monroney label of new cars and light duty trucks sold in the country, such as ratings on fuel economy, greenhouse gas emissions, and other air pollutants. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducted a series of studies to determine the best way to redesign this label to provide consumers with simple energy and environmental comparisons across all vehicles types, including battery electric vehicles (BEV), plug in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), and conventional internal combustion engine vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel, to help consumers choose more efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles. As part of the research and redesign process, EPA conducted focus groups where presented participants with several options to express the consumption of electricity for plug in electric vehicles. The research showed that participants did not understand the concept of a kilowatt hour as a measure of electric energy use even though this is the unit used in their monthly electric bills. Instead, participants favored a miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent, MPGe, as the metric to compare with the familiar miles per gallon used for gasoline vehicles. The research also concluded that the kW hrs per 100 miles metric was more confusing to focus group participants compared to miles per kW hr. Based on these results, EPA decided to use the following fuel economy and fuel consumption metrics on the redesigned labels: MPG (city and highway, and combined); MPGe (city and highway, and combined); Gallons per 100 miles; kW hrs per 100 miles. In November 2010, EPA introduced MPGe as a comparison metric on its new sticker for fuel economy for the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt.