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Executives at Nissan, Toyota, and the auto industry's largest US lobbying group say it will be impossible for the industry to meet aggressive timelines to phase out gas-powered cars and trucks by ...
A Ford Excursion SUV next to a Toyota Camry compact. Sport utility vehicles (SUVs) have been criticized for a variety of environmental and automotive safety reasons. The rise in production and marketing of SUVs in the 2010s and 2020s by auto manufacturers has resulted in over 80% of all new car sales in the United States being SUVs or light trucks by October 2021. [1]
The biggest of the Big Three experienced a strong 2024 with robust sales of its generally higher-priced vehicles, like trucks, SUVs, and EVs.. GM shareholders were rewarded with the stock up 25% ...
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) indicate a trend away from gas-powered vehicles that generate greenhouse gases. [ 164 ] In 2017, Volvo announced plans to phase out internal combustion-only vehicle production by 2019, after which all new cars manufactured by Volvo will either be fully electric or electric hybrids. [ 165 ]
Starting with 2026 models, 35% of new cars, SUVs and small pickups sold in California would be required to be zero-emission vehicles, with quotas increasing each year until 2035.
As of 2017, there were more than 21 million E85 flex-fuel vehicles in the United States, [1] up from about 11 million flex-fuel cars and light trucks in operation as of early 2013. [20] [21] The number of flex-fuel vehicles on U.S roads increased from 1.4 million in 2001, to 4.1 million in 2005, and rose to 7.3 million in 2008. [3] [19]
Americans have had a long love affair with big cars and the fantasy of hulking pickup trucks on wide open roads, but now many are finding new flings with smaller cars simply because they’re cheaper.
Also, many Americans own three or more vehicles. The low marginal cost of registering and insuring additional older vehicles, many of which are rarely used, could cause the study to be skewed as these vehicles are still given full weight in the statistics. The median and mean age of automobiles has steadily increased since 1969.