Amtrak on Thursday said Train 68 was operating with one locomotive and six passenger cars; the separation occurred between the first and second passenger cars.
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Now, VW sells over 3m passenger cars a year there.
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The locomotive and seven passenger cars went off the rails.
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Foreign passenger cars are in high demand, the ministry said.
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Passenger cars actually have a lot more requirements and liability.
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Almost none of this is because of private passenger cars.
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Hydrogen passenger cars can cost nearly double their electric counterparts.
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That's equivalent to the total annual emissions from 572,000 passenger cars.
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Passenger cars are, on balance, less profitable than SUVs and pickups.
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However, installing the Mobileye in passenger cars and trucks is unusual.
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It aims to make flying taxis cheaper than owning passenger cars.
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Passenger cars account for roughly a fourth of world oil demand.
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But for most passenger cars, the first-year deduction limit is $347.503,160.
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Passenger cars were moored to the rails and refurbished as luxury suites.
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Of all the alternative energy passenger cars sold, 75% were all-electric.
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New products will include "personal EVs" and other battery-powered passenger cars.
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First, automakers are doubling down on commitments to produce electric passenger cars.
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Neither Toyota nor Mazda market fully electric passenger cars at the moment.
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The 1924 building offers a manned freight elevator and two passenger cars.
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Light commercial vehicles dipped 0.5 percent and passenger cars declined 15.6 percent.
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In December, passenger cars made up just one-third of the market.
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In total, 36 passenger cars and three semis each had multiple flat tires.
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A few carmakers are even talking about getting out of passenger cars altogether.
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The slow roll towards electrified vehicles isn't isolated to passenger cars and SUVs.
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A dozen passenger cars came off the rails and onto an interstate highway.
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BMW will release annual sales figures for BMW-branded passenger cars on Friday.
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Ford, excluding the Mustang and upcoming Focus, will cease production on passenger cars.
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Build more self-driving busesForget about single-passenger cars completely for a second.
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As recently as 2012, passenger cars accounted for more than half of sales.
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Reallocate $7 billion in capital from developing passenger cars to trucks and SUVs.
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Beijing Benz Automotive Co. (BBAC) has been producing Mercedes passenger cars since 2005.
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CUVs use more fuel than passenger cars but less than truck-based SUVs.
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But at least one manufacturer isn't prepared to bail on passenger cars: Honda.
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Within a few years, it had a fine full line of passenger cars.
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The dual clutch gearbox is in use in millions of VW-branded passenger cars.
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That compares with €228 billion that the company earned from Volkswagen brand passenger cars.
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It also pledged to phase out diesel engines in European passenger cars by 2021.
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Two people in the passenger cars suffered serious injuries and the third was uninjured.
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China is the world's biggest market for passenger cars, smartphones, luxury goods and beer.
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In March sales of passenger cars zoomed again, by nearly 10% year on year.
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Sales of passenger cars and two-wheelers are growing at a double-digit pace.
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Discounts on trucks and SUVs were up $426, but down $226 on passenger cars.
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Less than 1 percent of passenger cars now run on so-called new energy.
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Pickup trucks and large S.U.V.s, for example, have lower mileage requirements than passenger cars.
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Volkswagen is awaiting approval for proposed repairs to passenger cars with the same engine.
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Only about one-quarter of the world's oil is used to fuel passenger cars.
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Plants in Mexico and Canada still produce the passenger cars the company sells here.
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Mr. Piëch was also a force in the development of diesel for passenger cars.
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Last year, a state panel suggested $11.52 for passenger cars and $25.34 for trucks.
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Commuters without their own vehicles would be able to travel in communal passenger cars.
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A spokesperson for Amtrak said both the lead engine and several passenger cars had derailed.
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At the same time, demand for sedans and other passenger cars continues to slide rapidly.
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In a continuing trend, consumers shunned passenger cars in favor of SUVs and pickup trucks.
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Diesel trucks and large passenger cars, with their relatively clean exhausts, will doubtless soldier on.
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Sales of passenger cars dropped about 21.3% in June, while light truck sales fell marginally.
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Previous standards raised the fuel economy goal for passenger cars to 54.5 mpg by 2025.
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The shift among consumers from passenger cars to light trucks has also continued to accelerate.
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In 2016, only 0.2 percent of new passenger cars sold in Europe were fully electric.
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Renault has a broader palette of passenger cars like the compact Mégane or subcompact Clio.
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Tesla already operates more than 212,26 "supercharger" stations globally for drivers of its passenger cars.
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Ford's United States market share also dipped, mostly because of plunging sales of passenger cars.
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WLTP standards measure the level of pollutants, CO9.33 emissions and fuel consumption for passenger cars.
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Passenger cars were allowed to pass slowly, but many foreign trucks were forced to stop.
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Passenger cars were allowed to pass slowly, but many foreign trucks were forced to stop.
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The goods being targeted by China include vehicles such as large passenger cars and motorcycles.
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More people died in passenger cars, SUVs, vans, and pickup trucks than they did in 2015.
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Germany's highest administrative court ruled in February that banning diesel engined passenger cars is legally permissible.
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Measured by passenger cars alone, registrations last year would have accounted for 2916 million, it said.
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That's nearly as much as electricity, and twice as much all the world's passenger cars combined.
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Perception systems deployed on mining and agricultural vehicles are not as cost-constrained as passenger cars.
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U.S. consumers continued to shun passenger cars in favor of larger pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers.
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The Obama administration has already mandated big increases in fuel economy for passenger cars and trucks.
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But the popularity of S.U.V.s and trucks cannot make up for big declines in passenger cars.
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Buyers have shifted toward a preference for utility vehicles, away from generally more affordable passenger cars.
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A quarter of climate-harming emissions come from transport and, within that, most from passenger cars.
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"We are working on the whole fleet, including luxury cars, passenger cars and buses," Myersdorf said.
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Delays and fares are rising along with ridership, with passenger cars packed to the breaking point.
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Ford's retail sales sank 21.4 percent, largely due to a 22018 percent slump in passenger cars.
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New Jersey Transit has 160 Arrow IIIs, out of about 1,000 passenger cars in its fleet.
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Among passenger cars, the Beetle trails only the Volkswagen Golf and the Toyota Corolla in popularity.
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Sales were down at all of GM's major brands, with particularly sharp decreases for passenger cars.
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The 0.7425 goods being targeted by China include vehicles such as large passenger cars and motorcycles.
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THE MAIN PLAYERS Only a handful of automakers have made fuel cell passenger cars commercially available.
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Almost half of all passenger cars will be electric vehicles, up from a tiny fraction today.
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The 333 goods being targeted by China include vehicles such as large passenger cars and motorcycles.
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There were also 3,469 hybrid passenger cars sold last month -- a 10% drop from March 2018.
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Sales of passenger cars dropped about 17.4%, while light truck sales remained more or less unchanged.
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No single- or two-passenger cars on the Williamsburg Bridge during the morning or afternoon rush.
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In addition, the European Union tightened its pollution standards for passenger cars and introduced stricter testing.
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We don't know if the technology will be applied first to passenger cars or commercial trucks.
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They stress that the company simply has more capacity than it needs, especially for its passenger cars.
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But Toyota isn't just holding onto hydrogen hope, it's expanding its efforts past passenger cars, to trucks.
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Sales of passenger cars dropped about 10 percent, while light truck sales were marginally up 0.6 percent.
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The auto industry loves this, because those trucks and SUVs are often more profitable than passenger cars.
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Ford earlier this year stopped building the Focus in Michigan, blaming declining U.S. demand for passenger cars.
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Passenger cars will account for 70 percent of total output and the remainder will be commercial trucks.
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Passenger cars drive America's oil consumption, accounting for 45 percent of oil used in the United States.
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In the past few years, Americans have increasingly shunned smaller passenger cars in favor of larger vehicles.
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In Europe, Volkswagen led the way in civilizing diesel for mass-market passenger cars in the 1990s.
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On Tuesday, Reuters reported Turkey would halve tariffs on passenger cars, alcoholic drinks, tobacco, cosmetics and PVC.
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A large part of this, besides safe operation, is that Amtrak passenger cars are extremely strong vehicles.
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Walling said Moneypenny visited tracks near Detroit used by Ford and General Motors to test passenger cars.
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But vans, pickup trucks and other off-road vehicles escaped with fewer restrictions than traditional passenger cars.
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The ruling means Berlin cannot introduce the autobahn (motorway) toll for passenger cars in its current form.
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There was a bullet-shaped car at the front and a string of passenger cars behind it.
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Toyota is putting Toyota Safety Sense, or T.S.S., on many of its passenger cars as standard equipment.
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That presents a problem for heavy-duty vehicles, which emit far more greenhouse gases than passenger cars.
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That decline was driven by fewer imports on products including cellphones, toys and games, and passenger cars.
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It also assembles several passenger cars such as the Chevrolet Malibu and Chevrolet Spark for local markets.
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The Japanese automaker's passenger cars dropped nearly 35 percent and SUV and truck sales were down 23.1 percent.
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Nissan sales were up 7.6 percent as strong truck and SUV sales offset a decline in passenger cars.
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Elon Musk's grand plan of moving beyond passenger cars to truly revolutionize transportation just got a bit grander.
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More than half the world's oil is used for transport, and of that, 46% goes into passenger cars.
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But the investment in Aurora is the first public connection between the company and self-driving passenger cars.
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Passenger cars coming off the assembly line nowadays can have 20 or more safety sacks lying in wait.
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The domestic automotive business, which makes half of all India's trucks and cheap passenger cars, has long struggled.
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Investigators are also examining the wrecked passenger cars, which have been taken to a nearby U.S. military base.
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With so many registered two-wheel vehicles, the penetration of passenger cars is exceptionally low by international standards.
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Prices for motorized and recreational vehicles fell 1.5 percent on cheaper prices for passenger cars and light trucks.
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And in September, the Model 3 narrowly missed being listed among Europe's top 10 passenger cars in sales.
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U.S. consumers have increasingly shunned passenger cars in favor of more comfortable, higher-margin SUVs and pickup trucks.
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That's the same kind of approach taken to craft miles-per-gallon standards for passenger cars and trucks.
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On Tuesday, the sources said Turkey will halve tariffs on passenger cars, alcoholic drinks, tobacco, cosmetics and PVC.
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"Systems for racecars are really different than for passenger cars," said Martin Frohnmaier, general project manager at Bosch.
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But apart from the VW Group, almost nobody was selling diesel passenger cars and light trucks in America.
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The Amtrak train's lead engine and some passenger cars derailed; it was carrying eight crewmembers and 139 passengers.
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Production of passenger cars in the EU was down 1.4% in 2018 from the year before, it added.
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Instead, the company is shifting to meet more consumer demand for sports utility vehicles rather than passenger cars.
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Ford said earlier this year it would gradually cease production of most passenger cars in the United States.
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"New-car demand has shifted to utility vehicles, creating a decline in demand for passenger cars, " Lyman said.
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While the House bill only accounts for passenger cars and trucks, the Senate bill could include driverless commercial vehicles.
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Those vehicles tend to be more profitable than sedans and passenger cars, in part because they simply cost more.
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Prices for passenger cars were, however, unchanged in October following the introduction of the 2018 models into the survey.
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Ford reported an 8.8 percent drop in sales for December, with declines in passenger cars, SUVs and pickup trucks.
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The Japanese automaker said passenger cars were down 16.5 percent, including its flagship Camry sedan, which slid 32.9 percent.
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Just a decade ago, sedans, coupes and other passenger cars accounted for more than half the new vehicle market.
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Exports of passenger cars and light trucks rebounded by 8.4 percent after dropping in February on lower auto output.
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Oleo 100 has been registered for use in vehicle fleets such as trucks and buses, but not passenger cars.
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The Japanese carmaker had suspended domestic production of all passenger cars it makes for its home market on Oct.
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Exports of passenger cars and light trucks rebounded by 3.623 percent after dropping in February on lower auto output.
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Volkswagen, which has been rocked by an emissions cheating scandal, saw sales of its passenger cars fall to 47,147.
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Didi currently uses regular passenger cars for its service, but has said it needs more dedicated "purpose-built" vehicles.
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Even most of the concepts were SUVs; things the EPA calls "passenger cars" were scarce this year in Detroit.
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This ranch features a rustic yet elegant barn and a vintage steam engine with passenger cars originally from Disneyland.
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Volkswagen cited the costs of preparing its passenger cars for tougher emissions rules, higher distribution expenses and upfront investments.
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U.S. automakers sell a lot of large trucks and SUVs, and have been moving away from selling passenger cars.
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Registrations of Mercedes passenger cars dipped 10.9 percent, while BMW recorded a 3.1 percent jump during the same period.
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In GM's case, demand is declining for smaller, traditional passenger cars like the ones the plants it's closing produce.
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Ford's high-margin F-Series pickup truck sales jumped by 12.5 percent, but passenger cars sales dropped 17.5 percent.
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New Yorkers are already seeing more hybrid and all-electric passenger cars and light-duty vehicles in city livery.
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The Japanese automaker said passenger cars were down 16.5 percent, including its flagship Camry sedan, which slid 32.9 percent.
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"We estimate that about one-third of all passenger cars worldwide will be sold as S.U.V.s," Mr. Dudenhöffer said.
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One severe oil price spike could send consumers back to passenger cars, the ones Ford is no longer making.
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About four million passenger cars were sold in India in 2018, well below the 28 million sold in China.
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The others were half-mile tracks that held races for modified stock cars, which were old reworked passenger cars.
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The mass casualty crash involved a tour bus, two tractor trailers, and numerous passenger cars, CBS News Radio reports.
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Fiat Chrysler has substantially reduced its production of passenger cars and is busy converting car factories into truck plants.
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And that is also true—perhaps even more so—for people who drive hybrid or all-electric passenger cars.
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Registrations rose to 241,399 passenger cars, with Volkswagen securing the highest sales increase among German carmakers at 20.5 percent.
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By contrast the return on sales at Mercedes-Benz passenger cars fell to 6.1 percent, down from 9 percent a year earlier and rival Volkswagen said the return on sales for its passenger cars business will be at the lower end of its 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent margin target this year.
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VW said it continues to expect an operating return on sales in the passenger cars area between 6.5% and 7.5% and reiterated that after special items, it expects the operating return on sales to be at the lower end of the expected range for the group and the passenger cars business area.
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Consumers have opted to buy more trucks and S.U.V.s than passenger cars in 2015, resulting in greater overall fuel consumption.
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American brands collectively made up less than a third of 1 percent of passenger cars sold in Japan last year.
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Almost one in three passenger cars sold in the United States was made by a Japanese-owned firm in 1991.
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Alternately, he said, passenger cars could be outfitted with retractable side wheels allowing them to travel through the loop autonomously.
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GM killed the Cruze and several other passenger cars as part of its cost-cutting plan, USA Today reported Monday.
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China is by far the world's largest automotive market, a goldmine where consumers bought 24 million passenger cars last year.
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Even diesel-fueled city buses reduce greenhouse gas emissions thanks to the number of people they carry versus passenger cars.
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For all the excitement over self-driving passenger cars, the freight industry is likely to adopt autonomous vehicles even faster.
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Sales of trucks and sport utility vehicles continued to account for most of the gains, while passenger cars lagged behind.
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They also use the same self-driving software that has enabled Waymo's passenger cars to go fully driverless in Arizona.
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Many experts believe full self-driving technology will first roll out in the trucking sector, rather than in passenger cars.
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After peaking at 51.32 percent of all sales in 20183, passenger cars fell to 40.4 percent of sales in 2016.
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Production of passenger cars "needs to be pulled back significantly," Jackson said, to reduce inventories and avoid further price cutting.
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The railroad will be stuck with passenger cars that were built in the 1970s for at least three more years.
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Companies such as General Motors and Fiat Chrysler make passenger cars, trucks, buses, vehicle accessories and production components in Mexico.
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U.S. consumers last month continued a longstanding trend of abandoning passenger cars for larger, more comfortable pickup trucks and SUVs.
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Prices for passenger cars accelerated 0.5 percent last month, the largest increase since December 2016, after being unchanged in October.
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In 2018, petrol engines powered more than half of new passenger cars in the EU, while diesel accounted for 35.9%.
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Sales of traditional passenger cars in North America have been declining for the past six years and are still withering.
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PG&E is also a critical player in California's plan to electrify everything from passenger cars to heavy-duty vehicles.
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The agency expects that by 2024, electric passenger cars in China will replace about 160,000 barrels per day of gasoline.
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Diesels account for more than half of passenger cars in Germany, in part because of tax breaks on diesel fuel.
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Throughout 21, automakers benefited from a continuing consumer shift away from passenger cars to more profitable pickup trucks and SUVs.
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Germany has only about 260 passenger cars on the roads, and 16 buses, that are powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
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In particular, the company is slowly phasing out the U.S. production of traditional passenger cars in favor of trucks and SUVs.
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Strong sales of trucks in North America helped offset declining sales of passenger cars, higher materials costs and difficulties in China.
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Passenger cars will have to not only go farther on less fuel, but also travel those miles on lower-carbon fuel.
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The US has more than 250 million passenger cars on the road, making the impact of this, roughly, close to zero.
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A subsidiary of the Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group, the company is the fifth largest producer of passenger cars among Chinese automakers.
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Low gasoline prices have boosted demand for the larger vehicles, while hurting demand for passenger cars such as Toyota's hybrid Prius.
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No longer: Morgan Stanley, a bank, notes that diesel passenger cars took less than 3.43% of sales in Germany in June.
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GM reported lofty sales for its big SUVs and pickup trucks, which are higher priced than sedans and other passenger cars.
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It mimics the movement of a real-life Ferris wheel, right down to the sway of its eight little passenger cars.
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Registrations of new passenger cars in Europe's largest auto market totalled 256,600 vehicles last month, helped by an additional selling day.
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Soon afterwards, the national government declared that it would speed up the introduction of stricter emissions standards for new passenger cars.
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Emissions from these vehicles are expected to surpass that of passenger cars and trucks by the end of the next decade.
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India has just 17 passenger cars per 1,000 people compared with 215 in Brazil, 450 in Britain and 540 in Germany.
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So when we hear about efforts to roll back existing U.S. fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars and trucks, we're puzzled.
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In 2015, passenger cars accounted for 44 percent of sales in the U.S. automotive market, down from 48 percent in 2014.
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Between 1985 and 20163, there was a major shift from passenger cars to trucks and specifically truck-based sport-utility vehicles.
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Volkswagen reiterated it wanted to achieve an operating return on sales of between 6.5 - 7.5 percent for the passenger cars division.
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And as demand falls, there is less work in the nation's auto-assembly plants — primarily those that build traditional passenger cars.
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In the last few years, Americans have increasingly shunned passenger cars in favor of larger, more comfortable SUVs and pickup trucks.
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In the last few years, Americans have increasingly shunned passenger cars in favor of larger, more comfortable SUVs and pickup trucks.
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For the second year in a row, carbon dioxide emissions from new passenger cars grew, rising 1.9% from the year before.
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The company indicated it would also shift its resources away from passenger cars and toward crossovers, SUVs, trucks, and electric vehicles.
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In the fourth quarter, GM said crossover sales rose 5.8% while demand for passenger cars plummeted 16.53% and trucks declined 5.9%.
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Daimler has struck alliances with Renault, Nissan and BMW to share development and procurement costs of trucks, buses and passenger cars.
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G.M. has also reduced the number of shifts this year at four of its American assembly plants that produce passenger cars.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) was on the other hand hit by a 7.3% fall of its passenger cars sales in Europe.
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And as demand falls, there is less work in the nation's auto-assembly plants — primarily those that build traditional passenger cars.
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The move marks a major shift for Buick, which has been known for its passenger cars for more than a century.
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Overall he sees the market for passenger cars growing between 1 percent and 1.5 percent in 2016, Welt am Sonntag said.
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The extension of four days until April 9 involves all its German plants for Volkswagen passenger cars, commercial vehicles and components.
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Only about 870,000 new electric vehicles (EVs) were produced worldwide in 2016, a year when 77.7 million new passenger cars were made.
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Demand for trucks and sport utility vehicles has surged, but passenger cars have slumped, forcing dealers and manufacturers to offer steeper discounts.
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Less than 1 percent of passenger cars are now new energy, but the pace of growth raises their potential to worsen smog.
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With the ongoing shift from passenger cars to light trucks, the GLA has been gaining momentum at the expense of the sedans.
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Ultimately, the self-driving system could be integrated across VW Group's many brands, including Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, Bentley, Skoda and Porsche.
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Contractors will have to remove debris from the top of the train before investigators can get into the passenger cars, she said.
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Stable, relatively low oil prices have since encouraged Americans to shun passenger cars in favor of higher-margin SUVs and pickup trucks.
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This is also the first time for Baidu to work with a non-Chinese automaker to mass produce level four passenger cars.
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He argued that commercial trucks operate differently than passenger cars and any issues could cause more damage than those involving smaller vehicles.
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"For 2016 we anticipate a much more modest sale increase for both passenger cars and commercial vehicles," Zetsche told a news conference.
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He added he expected FCA to stop making passenger cars in the United States by the end of the first quarter 2017.
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It currently uses regular passenger cars, but says as it moves forward it sees a need for more dedicated "purpose-built" vehicles.
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Diesel-powered cars have dominated the European market for years, accounting for more than half of all new passenger cars in 2013.
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Specifically, the standards are designed to reduce carbon emissions from new passenger cars by 50 percent and double fuel economy by 2025.
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The levy on passenger cars will fall from 25 to 15 percent on July 85033, China's Finance Ministry said, according to Bloomberg.
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Because today's passenger cars are so clean it would take a huge number of electric vehicles to significantly decrease levels of NOx.
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The museum uses its own stable of 1950s vintage passenger cars and diesel locomotives; book a dome seat for the best views.
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But both light trucks and passenger cars have become much more fuel efficient than the old vehicles they are replacing (tmsnrt.rs/2n7hajG).
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The No. 2 U.S. automaker said earlier this year it would gradually cease production of most passenger cars in the United States.
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Maruti Suzuki, which accounts for roughly half the passenger cars sold in India, reported a 36.7% drop in vehicle sales in July.
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But they're still no real match for passenger cars — sedans, hatchbacks and wagons — when it comes to fuel economy and reduced emissions.
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The United States imported $174 billion worth of passenger cars, $157 billion of parts and $43 billion of other vehicles in 2018.
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In 2010-2018, SUVs accounted for all of the 3.3 million barrels a day of growth in oil demand from passenger cars.
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With a demographic shift towards younger buyers, the proportion of passenger cars purchased on credit is expected to continue rising in 2017.
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The Europeans are expected to scrap a 10 percent tariff on passenger cars made in Japan, over a period of seven years.
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Automakers estimate for every medium-duty truck a corporate customer buys, they purchase up to six pickup trucks, SUVs, or passenger cars.
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Heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) — not passenger cars — are the fastest growing segment of U.S. transportation in terms of energy use and emissions.
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The network would hold electric skates that would allow passenger cars and automobiles to travel at speeds of up to 150 mph.
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Passenger cars sales tumbled 15.9 percent, while light trucks sales eked out a 1.8 percent increase, a report by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants showed.
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Those include passenger cars and other types of vehicles that run either purely on battery or is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
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Earlier this year, Ford said it will essentially stop selling traditional passenger cars in the U.S. altogether, except for its Mustang sports car.
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Rival Ford had already planned to abandon all passenger cars but its Mustang, while Fiat Chrysler has moved largely in the same direction.
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Toyota officials have subsequently tried to downplay Lentz's remarks, saying there is no immediate plan to cut any of the brand's passenger cars.
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That's in part because overall fuel economy in passenger cars is improving as engines become more efficient and electric cars become more popular.
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While Ford said in early 2018 that it plans to largely stop selling traditional passenger cars, it intends to keep the legendary Mustang.
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The distorting effects of tax changes may be masking the saturation of at least some sections of the domestic market for passenger cars.
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Top imports from Mexico, according to the government, include vehicles (including passenger cars), machinery (including flat-screen TVs), mineral fuels and medical instruments.
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Sales of passenger cars in China fell last year for the first time since 289, puncturing the growth forecasts of the car industry.
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Police rigs, passenger cars, and armored trucks are among a convoy of law enforcement vehicles currently moving in the area, The Oregonian reported.
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Getlink carries Eurostar high-speed trains between Paris, Brussels and London, as well as shuttle trains containing passenger cars, coaches and freight trucks.
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Passenger cars account for 20 million barrels per day (bpd) of the continent's diesel consumption of 4.1 million bpd, according to FGE data.
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At a product level, exports of soybeans increased by $900 million, passenger cars rose by $700 million and aircraft fell by $1.3 billion.
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It is also concerned about potential collusion on "Otto" particle filters to reduce harmful particle emissions from exhaust gases of petrol passenger cars.
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For the last couple of years, automakers have enjoyed record profits even as they have developed increasingly fuel-efficient passenger cars and trucks.
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Advanced rail transportation equipment includes wayside systems (fixed assets such as signaling and communications) and rolling stock (mobile assets such as passenger cars).
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Passenger cars have been losing out to SUVs and pickups in a US market that has seen four straight years of booming sales.
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Most passenger cars recommend 30-35 PSI, but if you have a custom wheel and tire set up, it could be slightly lower.
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But the long-term vision, and one that is already in motion, is to move away from travel that relies on passenger cars.
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The Environmental Protection Agency will overturn the Obama administration's tough new requirements to boost fuel efficiency and cut greenhouse gases from passenger cars.
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It currently uses regular passenger cars, but says as it develops its offerings it sees a need for more dedicated "purpose-built" vehicles.
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"These technologies aim at making passenger cars less damaging to the environment," Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's competition commissioner, said in a statement.
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State lawmakers were reluctant, in an election year, to embrace the latest proposal to charge $11.52 for passenger cars and $25.34 for trucks.
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Ford Motor reported a 1.3% fall in sales for the fourth quarter in the United States, hurt by declining sales of passenger cars.
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"Hyundai is our first vehicle partner with experience of manufacturing passenger cars on a global scale," said Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate.
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Ford is trimming salaried employees, G.M. is cutting production shifts at some factories and Fiat Chrysler has idled plants that make passenger cars.
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Eurotunnel carries Eurostar high-speed trains between Paris, Brussels and London, as well as shuttle trains containing passenger cars, coaches and freight trucks.
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With Americans shying away from passenger cars, new sport-utility vehicles like the roomy Audi Q8 and Chevrolet Traverse will headline the unveilings.
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Automakers in the U.S. are focusing on selling larger SUVs and trucks that are more profitable, as passenger cars fall out of favor.
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The tariffs are considered economically damaging for the Asian giant since passenger cars make up around 30 percent of Japanese exports headed stateside.
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The last time gas prices soared, G.M.'s lack of competitive passenger cars helped, along with a failing economy, push it into bankruptcy.
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During CNBC's visit, staff tested a combination of vehicles, including passenger cars, 14-passenger buses and logistics vehicles that could eventually deliver packages.
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Also in Manhattan, passenger cars are all but banned in the heart of 5003th Street, which was long known for its crawling traffic.
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GM posted strong gains for models such as the Silverado pickup truck and Equinox crossover model, while its passenger cars continued to struggle.
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The new North American trade deal exempts the first 2.6 million SUVs and passenger cars built in Mexico and Canada from new tariffs.
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While sales of its passenger cars dropped almost 2000 percent, Ford said its S.U.V. sales improved by 3 percent, to more than 50,000 vehicles.
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But major automakers say that trucks and SUVs, which have higher profit margins, are easily outselling passenger cars, leading to higher overall selling prices.
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The BMW brand reported car sales of 2.09 million vehicles last year but rival Mercedes-Benz saw higher sales of 2.29 million passenger cars.
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Michelin and General Motors Co have announced a joint research agreement aiming to have airless tyres on passenger cars by as early as 2024.
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The decision means Nuro can make self-driving delivery vehicles without features that would be required in passenger cars, like side mirrors and windshields.
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"Cars aren't going to help Fiat Chrysler here much," said Ms. Krebs, who noted that sales of passenger cars were near all-time lows.
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A dozen passenger cars were flung off the tracks and onto an interstate highway below near DuPont, killing three people and injuring 72 others.
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Combining Europe's third- and sixth-largest makers of passenger cars would be a big step towards ending the gridlock in the continent's auto industry.
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Ford said South American customers, like their counterparts in North America, are increasingly choosing SUVs and crossovers over traditional passenger cars like the Focus.
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VW said it continues to expect an operating return on sales in the passenger cars area and the group of between 6.5% and 7.5%.
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The largest sources of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions include passenger cars and light-duty trucks, such as SUVs, pickup trucks, minivans, and sedans.
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Five of the train's nine passenger cars came off the tracks in Grey County, about 20 miles west of Dodge City, shortly after midnight.
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The company reiterated it was committed to carrying out voluntary, free-of-charge software updates of older diesel passenger cars with Euro 5 engines.
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After that, the central government may do more to drive production, possibly reclassifying pick-ups as passenger cars rather than commercial vehicles, he said.
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Ford has said it plans to phase out the Focus sedan and hatchback in North America because of declining demand for conventional passenger cars.
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Its truck business is so robust Ford felt comfortable giving up on mainstream passenger cars altogether, pivoting to only trucks, SUVs and the Mustang.
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Hyperloops will use partially pressurized tubes to propel "pods" or passenger cars on a bed of air at speeds of up to 760 mph.
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Critically, the fuel-economy standard for light trucks in 2000 (22015 mpg) was tougher than the standard for passenger cars in 22017 (27.5 mpg).
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Ford F-Series pick-up truck was the best-selling vehicle, while Honda Civic took the top position for passenger cars, according to GAC.
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In fact, they tend to perform the job better than most other types of passenger cars — even their upscale descendant, the sport utility vehicle.
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The coaches, known as Arrow IIIs, are the oldest passenger cars in daily use by any commuter railroad in the New York metropolitan area.
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For years, U.S. consumers have been shifting away from traditional passenger cars in favor of larger and more comfortable pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers.
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The Detroit Three are facing rapidly dwindling demand for traditional passenger cars from U.S. consumers, many of whom have shifted to crossovers and trucks.
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The study also found that 100% of the increase in demand for oil for passenger cars was driven by the popularity of larger vehicles.
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Oil use in passenger cars peaks in the late 2020s, but that's offset by rising demand for oil in the petrochemical and other sectors.
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That has prompted it to recall 1.2 million vehicles, including all passenger cars it produced for sale in Japan over the past three years.
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Data from the Aluminium Association shows aluminum use in passenger cars and light trucks climbed 153% to 6,080 million lbs between 2007 and 2017.
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Data from the Aluminium Association shows aluminium use in passenger cars and light trucks climbed 153% to 6,080 million lbs between 2007 and 2017.
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But for smaller school buses, which are closer in size and weight to passenger cars and trucks, and therefore more dangerous, seatbelts are required.
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Automakers in the United States are focusing on selling larger SUVs and trucks that are more profitable, as passenger cars fall out of favor.
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There will be a further 340m electric vehicles (including passenger cars, trucks and buses) produced between now and 2030, according to analysts at McKinsey.
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The FRA is removing a stenciling requirement that applies to the windows in locomotives, passenger cars, and cabooses that are required to be glazed.
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It has become much safer but much more expensive: Racecars need computer systems just like passenger cars, and lots of new, model-specific parts.
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Earlier Erdogan doubled tariffs on imports of U.S. passenger cars to 120 percent, alcoholic drinks to 140 percent and leaf tobacco to 60 percent.
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The Metrolink's locomotive and one of its three passenger cars derailed; two of the freight train's locomotives and 10 of its 17 cars derailed.
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Combining Europe's third- and sixth-largest makers of passenger cars would be a big step toward ending the gridlock in the Continent's auto industry.
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General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co in 2015 also had some shutdowns of U.S. plants making passenger cars due to lack of demand.
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The major auto manufacturers reported mixed results as demand continued to tilt more toward sport utility vehicles and pickups and away from traditional passenger cars.
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This makes Audi the third biggest selling premium brand behind BMW, which delivered 2,125,026 cars and leader Mercedes-Benz, which sold 2.31 million passenger cars.
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Oldsmobile was the first to use it on passenger cars, introducing it in 1962, followed by Chevrolet, which offered a turbocharged Corvair, of all things.
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Parent Land Rover has been on something of a tear lately, taking advantage of the massive shift from conventional passenger cars to SUVs and crossovers.
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Households have tended to buy motorcycles as their per capita incomes have risen, and then switch to passenger cars as their incomes increase even further.
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The United States currently imposes a 2.5 percent tariff on imported passenger cars from the EU and a 25 percent tariff on imported pickup trucks.
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But in a couple of decades, more than a third of all passenger cars will run on batteries — not on gasoline or diesel, analysts say.
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Imports of motor vehicles and parts dipped 2.8 percent as demand for passenger cars and light trucks weakened for the ninth time in 12 months.
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Meanwhile, lower imports of passenger cars and light trucks in May coincided with declines in motor vehicle sales, Statistics Canada said, with sales dropping 5.2%.
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"The group developed and launched large-sectional aluminium parts for passenger cars and commercial vehicles, which received positive market feedback," Zhongwang said in a statement.
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A 24.1% decline in sales of ever less-popular passenger cars dragged down what was otherwise a positive quarter for the nation's second-largest automaker.
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Toyota said in a statement the new company will develop technology for a range of electric cars, including minivehicles, passenger cars, SUVs and light trucks.
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Currently, tariffs on U.S. whiskey stand at 140%, while the rate is at 120% for passenger cars, 50% for PVC and 60% for cosmetic products.
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Last year BMW sold 1.91 million BMW-branded passenger cars, compared with 1.87 million sales for Mercedes and 1.8 million luxury vehicle sales at Audi.
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"As the relevance of passenger cars decreases in the U.S. it helps profitability," Marchionne said on a conference call after the company issued quarterly earnings.
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Its passenger cars fell more than 25 percent during the month, even as sales of its popular trucks and sport utility vehicles remained relatively steady.
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Overall registrations declined to 347,433 passenger cars last month, the KBA said, confirming a report by Reuters/ (Reporting by Andreas Cremer Editing by Maria Sheahan)
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The misconduct has already forced Nissan to recall all 1.2 million new passenger cars sold in Japan over the past three years for re-inspection.
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The 2.9 percent price decline in the vehicles sector was partly driven by a 3.0 percent drop in prices for passenger cars and light trucks.
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Tesla sold 56,065 Model 23 vehicles during the third quarter, making it one of the top selling passenger cars in the U.S. during the period.
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Moreover, passenger cars represent only one-quarter of world oil demand, so electrifying personal transport alone would not mean the end of the oil age.
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Exports of motor vehicles were up 12.4% to C$13 billion, thanks to increased shipments of passenger cars and light trucks after Canadian production increased.
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American consumers have gradually been abandoning passenger cars in favor of larger, more comfortable SUVs and pickup trucks that are far more profitable for automakers.
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Under an 18-month pilot program, passenger cars would be largely restricted to making deliveries or picking up and dropping off passengers from 6 a.m.
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The recall announced on Monday, which covers diesel Mercedes Vito vans, GLC midsize S.U.V.s and C Class passenger cars, raises the stakes for Daimler significantly.
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It's the latest example of how much consumer demand in the U.S. has moved away from passenger cars to crossovers and SUVs in recent years.
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U.S. consumers have been shifting away from traditional passenger cars for larger, more comfortable SUVs and pickup trucks, which are also more profitable for automakers.
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The weight and boxy shape of SUVs makes them less fuel-efficient, so they cost more to operate and are less nimble than passenger cars.
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"We see a real possibility that global sales of conventional passenger cars have already passed their peak," said Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport for BNEF.
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Strong sales of trucks in North America helped offset declining sales of passenger cars, and challenges such as higher costs, lower volume, and difficulties in China.
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The pickup market has changed a great deal in recent years as buyers have shifted away from passenger cars and toward sport utility vehicles and trucks.
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The other big trend is the staggering shift from passenger cars to crossovers and truck-based vehicles that has taken place over the last several years.
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It's been nearly a year since Elon Musk revealed his intention to electrify the world's roads with buses and trucks in addition to Tesla's passenger cars.
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Since there are only 303 million passenger cars and light trucks in the country, that means we have roughly four times more parking spaces than vehicles.
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There is still significant cross-selling potential between Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and trucks and vans, particularly when it comes to autonomous vehicle technology, Uebber said.
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The locomotives they're building for Florida will run on clean diesel, and the passenger cars are made of stainless steel to make them resistant to rust.
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It has a factory in Peterlee, which makes camera systems used in lane assistance systems for passenger cars, and a plant in Solihull makes chassis technology.
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China's car industry boomed last year: the world's largest auto market saw the number of passenger cars sold swell by 15%, thanks to government tax incentives.
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While driverless cars are definitely some years away, it's easy to see truck platooning—and possibly even road trains for passenger cars—coming online much sooner.
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The automaker chose to essentially stop producing several vehicles that have seen drops in sales, as consumers ditch sedans and passenger cars for SUVs and pickups.
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Despite an increase in geopolitical risks, Zetsche said he did not see a downturn in global demand for passenger cars, thanks to robust demand in Asia.
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The automaker has plans to produce a range of passenger cars and electric scooters, some of which will be exported to foreign markets in the future.
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Gritty details Global oil demand is driven most by three big buckets (figures courtesy of the IEA): Passenger cars make up a little more than 25%.
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That prompted the recall of 1.2 million vehicles for re-inspection, including all passenger cars it produced for sale in Japan over the past three years.
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Executives said GM will reduce spending on traditional sedans in North America, while introducing new low-cost passenger cars next year in China and South America.
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While trucks and sport utility vehicles continue to propel the overall growth of the market, passenger cars made by Honda and Nissan are also selling well.
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Some testified that one of El Chapo's earliest methods of smuggling drugs into the country was by using passenger cars with hidden compartments in their chassis.
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Automakers realized they could increase their profit margins by driving consumers to trucks, which then as now were subject to less stringent requirements than passenger cars.
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Passenger cars began introducing rearview mirrors soon after the race; Davidson said he had never seen a photograph of one on a car before that date.
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Nissan announced Thursday that it will make automatic emergency braking standard on the bulk of its 2018 passenger cars, crossovers, and SUVs in the United States.
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Vehicles such as old buses, taxis, coaches and lorries have to pay a charge to enter these zones but private passenger cars would not be charged.
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In the statement, the commission said it did not find any links between the cartel and so-called defeat devices installed by Volkswagen in passenger cars.
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The United States currently imposes a 53 percent tariff on imported passenger cars from the European Union and a 25 percent tariff on imported pickup trucks.
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The train derailed after careening around a curve at almost three times the speed limit, hurling passenger cars off an overpass onto rush hour traffic below.
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The Chrysler half of the Italian-American company Fiat Chrysler has gone a step further by dropping most small and midsize passenger cars from its lineup.
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The state has vowed to stick to more stringent emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks even as President Trump moves to weaken those rules.
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The bloc produces about a quarter of the world's passenger cars, led by Germany's strong auto manufacturing industry, employing some 13.8 million Europeans, according to ACEA.
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Stretch limousines are modified after manufacturing and are generally not subject to the same safety regulations that are imposed on the protective structures for passenger cars.
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The United States currently imposes a 153 percent tariff on imported passenger cars from the European Union and a 215 percent tariff on imported pickup trucks.
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Passenger cars accounted for 20213 percent of retail light-vehicle sales in the United States in 22021, according to market researchers at J.D. Power and Associates.
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Over all, air travel accounts for about 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions — a far smaller share than emissions from passenger cars or power plants.
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Much of Ford's emphasis during his tenure was on smaller, fuel-efficient passenger cars, which have since lost favor with customers because of low gas prices.
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"Wagons are still based on sedans, and passenger cars are almost always going to be better on driving experience," said IHS Markit senior analyst Stephanie Brinley.
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To that end, it was exciting to see the city ban most passenger cars from 14th Street, a central crosstown artery, to help speed buses along.
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Overall sales of U.S. passenger cars and light trucks may increase 1 percent this year to 17.5 million autos from 17.4 million in 2015, he said.
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Overall auto sales fell 22 percent in May, with passenger cars posting a 9.4 percent decline to 68,070 units, according to research firm DesRosiers Automotive Consultants.
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The standard called for car companies to cut their average greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars and light trucks to 21 grams per mile by 218.
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But its passenger cars, and many of its SUVs, are perhaps better known for being well-built, reliable and capable vehicles good for commuting and hauling groceries.
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August's growth was driven by "solid demand" for passenger cars and increased commercial vehicle sales, a CAAM official said at a briefing on the data on Monday.
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"It's a car that Dodge built for people who missed the muscle-car generation," says Tim Kuniskis, head of passenger cars for Dodge parent FCA North America.
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Chinese tariffs on U.S. passenger cars, imposed in retaliation for U.S. duties on Chinese goods, have already hiked up the cost of exporting to China, BMW said.
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Vehicles such as old buses, taxis, coaches and lorries will have to pay a charge to enter these zones but private passenger cars will not be charged.
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All versions of the ID.3 will be upgradeable via software updates, according to Jürgen Stackmann, the head of sales and marketing for Volkswagen's passenger cars division.
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Nokian Tyres, which makes tyres for major car manufacturers for passenger cars, vans and trucks, has flagged its strong test results extensively in its marketing and advertising.
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Exports of motor vehicles were up 12.4% in May to C$13 billion, thanks to increased shipments of passenger cars and light trucks after Canadian production increased.
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The country's finance ministry said on Monday it extended by six months a 30 percent cut in consumption tax for passenger cars beyond the end-2018 deadline.
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That could take the form of passenger cars, like the kind Uber now has on the road in Pittsburgh and that Google has been testing for years.
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Simultaneously, Daimler said it planned to set up a new assembly plant for its Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in Egypt in cooperation with a local business partner.
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HAMBURG, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Sales of new passenger cars in Germany rose 3.5 percent in August to around 4,500 vehicles, an industry source told Reuters on Monday.
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Japanese exports to the U.S. were picking up; for example, passenger cars represented 6.5 percent of the U.S. car market in 1973 and 21 percent by 1980.
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A decree by Erdogan doubled Turkish tariffs on imports of U.S. passenger cars to 120 percent, alcoholic drinks to 140 percent and leaf tobacco to 60 percent.
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"We continue to take actions to adjust production in response to lower customer demand for passenger cars in North America," Stevens told investors on a conference call.
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Like its rival Ford, GM has been shifting its portfolio away from passenger cars and toward trucks, SUVs and crossovers, which combine elements of cars and SUVs.
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The development comes as the market for trucks and other heavy equipment, as with passenger cars, is disrupted by new technology such as electrification and automated driving.
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The FRA announced Monday it is removing a stenciling requirement that applies to the windows in locomotives, passenger cars, and cabooses that are required to be glazed.
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But when it comes to global trade, Germany sells more passenger cars in China than any other country does, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
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The energy ministry said a number of passenger cars were tested in Java's highland region where they were left in cold temperatures for up to 21 days.
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New vehicle registrations at the multi-brand group increased to 947,600 passenger cars, commercial vehicles and heavy trucks, VW said on Friday, from 885,200 a year earlier.
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Before the decision, tariffs on U.S. whiskey stood at 140%, while the rate is at 120% for passenger cars, 50% for PVC and 60% for cosmetic products.
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The second survey of a thousand distribution companies showed "relatively strong appetite" in boosting imports, the commerce ministry said, particularly in food, cosmetics, watches and passenger cars.
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Fleet sales, particularly those to rental agencies, are skewed toward passenger cars, which are falling out of favor as consumers shift to sport utility vehicles and trucks.
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BEIJING, May 22 (Reuters) - China will cut the import duty on passenger cars to 15 percent from 25 percent currently, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources.
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U.S. consumers have been shifting away from traditional passenger cars in favor of larger, more comfortable SUVs and pickup trucks, which are also more profitable for automakers.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Major automakers on Wednesday reported lower U.S. new vehicle sales for July amid steep declines in passenger cars, except Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) (FCHA.
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VDA expects overall registrations of U.S. passenger cars and light commercial vehicles to drop slightly below 17 million units this year, Wissmann said, without being more specific.
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Exports of motor vehicles were up 12.4% in May to C$8.4 billion, thanks to increased shipments of passenger cars and light trucks after Canadian production increased.
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"We assume that Germany will return to normal in the summer," Juergen Stackmann, management board member for the VW passenger cars brand, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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In the US, transportation is responsible for 29 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly 60 percent of those come from light-duty vehicles like passenger cars.
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That wasn't enough to make up for the 30.5% decline in passenger cars and a 2% slide in trucks, which include pickups, fulls-size SUVs and vans.
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In Mexico's case, the U.S. agreed to exclude 2.6 million passenger cars, all light trucks and $108 billion in auto parts trade from any national security tariffs.
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Mr. Ford and Mr. Hackett concede that Ford has been underperforming in some of the core parts of its business, in particular its sales of passenger cars.
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Trump wants to scrap Obama-era standards requiring passenger cars to average about 51 miles a gallon by 2025; today it's just under 37 miles a gallon.
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The effect of those requirements largely has been to increase the weight and bulk of passenger cars and prevent U.S. firms from buying cars from other markets.
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Trump has consistently complained that the EU imposes a 10 percent tariff on vehicles while the U.S. only has a 2323 percent import duty on passenger cars.
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LaNeve called this year a "transitional one" for the company as Ford moves its lineup away from passenger cars to new or redesigned trucks, crossovers and SUVs.
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At the same time Ford under Hackett has made some bold moves, such as choosing to all but stop making traditional passenger cars for the U.S. market.
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It also prompted the recall of 1.2 million vehicles for re-inspection, including all passenger cars it produced for sale in Japan over the past three years.
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Passenger cars "continues to be a difficult segment as we see a continued shift into SUVs," Ford's U.S. sales chief, Mark LaNeve, said on a conference call.
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General Motors said in November it plans to slash production at several U.S. factories that focus on making passenger cars, such as the Chevrolet Cruze mid-size sedan.
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Sales of sedans were down nearly 26 percent, in line with an ongoing trend where U.S. consumers have been abandoning passenger cars for larger pickup trucks and SUVs.
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Chicago's airport loop will consist of consist of an 18-mile rail network for autonomous, 16-passenger cars that can reach peak speeds of 150 miles per hour.
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These tools are so common in passenger cars that most of us take them for granted, but they are crucial stepping stones toward higher degrees of vehicle autonomy.
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The inaccurate mileage tests involved 157,000 of its eK wagon and eK Space light passenger cars, and 468,000 Dayz and Dayz Roox vehicles produced for Nissan Motor Co.
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Of course the concept of a steering wheel in passenger cars, may one day be one of pure nostalgia as we move into the age of autonomous driving.
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It's built like an off-road utility vehicle, but is outfitted with creature comforts typically reserved for passenger cars, like an HVAC system and two big digital displays.
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The Republican candidate repeatedly warned that he would take steps to block Ford from importing Mexican-made passenger cars, if by no other means than adding hefty tariffs.
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Automakers including Ford have reduced production of traditional passenger cars due to slumping sales, while gradually moving to larger SUVs and trucks, which tend to be more profitable.
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A decree signed by Erdogan doubled Turkish tariffs on U.S. imports of passenger cars to 120 percent, alcoholic drinks to 140 percent and leaf tobacco to 60 percent.
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If heavy goods vehicles were included in addition to light trucks and passenger cars, Volkswagen would still be ahead and Toyota would be in second place, Oakley said.
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American customers have been abandoning traditional passenger cars in favor of more comfortable SUVs, although demand in recent quarters has been weak for the more popular larger vehicles.
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There have been some big investments announced in recent months, though most have been aimed at shifting production from slow-selling passenger cars to hotter SUVs and pickups.
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The comment comes as Japan's second-biggest automaker the same day recalled all 1.2 million passenger cars sold domestically over the past three years due to the issue.
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Saudi Arabia had 7.3 million vehicles in operation in 2017, with 438,000 new passenger cars and 110,000 new commercial vehicles sold that year, according to research firm Aranca.
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But automakers have been helped as more U.S. consumers shift away from traditional passenger cars to larger SUVs and trucks, which tend to be more profitable for producers.
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Nissan and Dongfeng would use two existing assembly plants to produce Nissan brand passenger cars and construct a new plant in Wuhan where state-owned Dongfeng is headquartered.
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While it had a pickup truck and two Jeep models in the top 20 selling vehicles in the American market, none of its passenger cars made the list.
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In May, BMW warned on profits, while Volkswagen said the return on sales at its passenger cars division would come in at the lower end of its target.
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VW affirmed its target for 2018 operating return on sales before special items at both the group and its passenger cars business area of 6.5 to 7.5 percent.
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And that decision has paid off: U.S. automakers have seen record profits as they develop cleaner passenger cars and trucks that go farther on every gallon of gas.
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New Jersey Transit is still running a batch of passenger cars that were built more than 40 years ago and have outlived their useful lives — more than once.
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"China will, in my view, be the biggest market for passenger cars for a very long time," said Hubertus Troska, the company's management board member responsible for China.
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In the first quarter of 2016, sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles were down 16.9 percent year-on-year at 319,092, it said in statement.
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They would have forced automakers to build passenger cars that achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, compared with about 36 miles per gallon today.
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And giving up on Opel (whose models are rebadged as Vauxhalls for the British market) is a big step in the direction of not having competitive passenger cars.
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Despite declining demand for sedans and passenger cars in the United States overall, Lincoln sold more than 29,20163 vehicles in the U.S. — its best performance in a decade.
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Companies are also adding incentives and other discounts to bolster sales of slow-selling passenger cars, as consumer tastes shift more toward sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks.
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At the same time, the company plans to drop most passenger cars from its lineup in the United States, including venerable nameplates like the Taurus and the Fusion.
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As currently proposed, the hyperloop uses a partially pressurized tube to propel "pods" or passenger cars on a bed of air at speeds of up to 760 mph.
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On Monday, the company said it would shutter five North American plants, stop building six low-selling passenger cars in North America and cut up to 15,000 jobs.
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The company says those pilot pods will be hauling up to 2,000,000 pallets per year, while conserving the equivalent CO2 emissions of 400,000 passenger cars driving along the route.
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VW brand sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Brazil may jump 44 percent to 413,776 units by 2023 from an estimated 286,745 next year, IHS said.
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Demand for multi-tasking vehicles from cost-conscious consumers and historically low gasoline prices have ramped up demand for SUVs and other larger models over that of passenger cars.
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But Chinese demand for mass-market passenger cars has fallen, increasing the dependence of some local players such as BAIC on income from ventures with premium brands like Daimler.
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That gives scope for Ford to broaden its alliance with VW from commercial vehicles into passenger cars, helping VW create more economies of scale in production and R&D.
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Daimler has not yet released annual sales figures for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars, so it remains unclear whether BMW brand overtook Mercedes-Benz in terms of sales in 2018.
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Without a human driver, the vehicle doesn't need some of the traditional and federally required features found in passenger cars, such as side-view mirrors or a transparent windshield.
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Sales of new passenger cars in Germany increased to around 298,000 vehicles last month, the person said, declining to be identified because official sales data hasn't been published yet.
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Electric car sales in India, one of the world's fastest-growing auto markets, made up less than 0.1 percent of annual sales of more than 3 million passenger cars.
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VW brand sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Brazil may jump 13 percent to 413,776 units by 2023 from an estimated 286,745 next year, IHS said.
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Volkswagen bucked a trend of falling demand for passenger cars by launching a range of higher-margin sports utility vehicles at a time when demand for sedans is falling.
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Research firm DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc said sales of passenger cars fell 21.3 percent in the month with Ford Canada and Fiat Chrysler recording a drop in overall sales.
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American consumers have been abandoning traditional passenger cars in favor of more comfortable SUVs, although demand in recent quarters has also been weak for the more popular larger vehicles.
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After a century of ferrying millions of daily commuters and taking countless family road trips, simple passenger cars are disappearing from American life, and they may not come back.
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Adding self-driving technology — at least as it stands now — into regular passenger cars could make them absurdly expensive for anyone without the cash of a Silicon Valley mogul.
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The standard-setters assumed the vehicle mix would shift decisively in favor of smaller, more fuel efficient passenger cars and away from larger light-duty trucks over the period.
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The largest U.S. automaker has been cutting shifts at some factories that make passenger cars, such as its plant in Lordstown, Ohio, which makes the compact Chevrolet Cruze sedan.
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That's why a prominent automotive supplier has developed a counterintuitive technology that could enhance turbocharged engines for passenger cars by improving fuel economy with no reduction in power. How?
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In terms of heat-trapping greenhouse potential, the volume of leaked methane was equivalent to putting 572,000 passenger cars on the road for a year, according to the scientists.
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Traditional passenger cars accounted for more than 50 percent of U.S. new vehicle sales as recently as 2012, but in 2017 made up less than 37 percent of sales.
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Hydrogen power is not only gaining in momentum with passenger cars, but also growing in other vehicle markets, including hydrogen fuel cell buses in California, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Delaware.
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FLEET-WIDE EFFICIENCY The average age of passenger cars and light trucks on U.S. roads is more than 11 years old, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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The government will increase the financial sector's corporate tax rate by 2 percentage points to 22 percent and raise the motor vehicle tax on passenger cars by 40 percent.
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GUANGZHOU, China — As the hype over self-driving vehicles begins to wear a bit thin, it looks like the technology will come to trucks more quickly than passenger cars.
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The United States tariff on passenger cars is only 2.5 percent, so if Nafta falls apart it may be more cost-effective for companies to make cars in Asia.
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"Due to lower demand and changes in the schedules, the number of transported passengers, cargo units and passenger cars will be negatively affected over the coming months," it said.
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Op-Ed Contributor Just days after Donald Trump was elected president, the auto industry asked him to relax greenhouse-gas and fuel-economy standards for passenger cars and trucks.
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A 2018 study in the journal Nature found that electric drones were "far more efficient than trucks, vans, larger gasoline drones, and passenger cars," when comparing for distance traveled.
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Both GM and rival Ford Motor Co have struggled to rein in high inventories of passenger cars as consumers have shifted to buying pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.
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"Current safety standards for locomotive cabs and rail passenger cars are inadequate," the N.T.S.B. said in February when it unveiled its "most wanted" list of safety improvements for trains.
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But this year, the companies have faced widespread criticism for deceiving the public about the health risks posed by the diesel passenger cars that they produce in enormous numbers.
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But for passenger cars, where electric vehicles now account for 5% of the local market, he calls for an increase to 80% by 2035 and 100% not until 2050.
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Companies such as Volkswagen might be interested in parts of Fiat Chrysler such as Alfa Romeo, a maker of small and midsize passenger cars known for their Italian styling.
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Manhattan traffic ban: Starting today, passenger cars, including taxis and Ubers, will be largely prevented from using 14th Street, a major crosstown route that carried 21,000 vehicles a day.
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Rising discretionary income and record-low interest rates have encouraged consumers to buy new cars, but many turned against the large passenger cars for which GM Holden is known.
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Sales of the Cruze, like many other passenger cars, have fallen in recent months because of low gas prices and shifting consumer demand toward more spacious sport utility vehicles.
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The state filed suit one month after the EPA said it would overturn the Obama administration's requirements to boost fuel efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars.
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To put that number in context, it's equivalent to taking 2265 million passenger cars off the road for an entire year, according to estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Electric car sales in India, one of the world's fastest-growing auto markets, made up less than 0.1 percent of annual sales of more than 214 million passenger cars.
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The decree, signed by President Tayyip Erdogan, raised the tariffs on passenger cars to 120 percent, on alcoholic drinks to 140 percent and on leaf tobacco to 60 percent.
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Amazon relies on contract drivers in passenger cars and trucks to make many last-minute deliveries quicker than it can through delivery partners like the United States Postal Service.
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Volkswagen hiked the number of passenger cars registered for road use with the authorities by 46.2 percent in Germany last month, lifting passenger car registrations by 24.7 percent in August.
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"In Europe, where our diesel sales are concentrated, our electrification push will allow us to discontinue diesel gradually from passenger cars at the time of each vehicle renewal," she added.
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The development of Mercedes-Benz electric passenger cars remains in the hands of Juergen Schenk, the engineer who has overseen development of vehicles including the electric Mercedes-Benz B-Class.
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By Monday, Japan's second-biggest automaker had discovered problematic checks of more vehicles, and said it would recall all new passenger cars sold in Japan over the past three years.
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Rynning-Toennesen said the new product was not primarily aimed at passenger cars, as cities worldwide are trying to phase out diesel to boost air quality and favor electric cars.
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Volkswagen said it expects the return on sales for its passenger cars business to be at the lower end of its 6.5 percent and 7.5 percent target for the year.
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Volkswagen reiterated it expects vehicle deliveries in 2019 to exceed a prior-year figure and for revenues in the passenger cars and commercial vehicles divisions to grow at least 5%.
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Volkswagen said in October it will offer buyers of VW-branded passenger cars an incentive if they agree to scrap cars equipped with older Euro 1 to Euro 4 engines.
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Besides another 70 million euros for trucks restructuring, Daimler said it also needs to spend 100 million euros to fund a planned reorganization of its passenger-cars and trucks units.
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Honda said its sales fell 9.5 percent to 120,534 vehicles, more than doubling the pace of decline as it was hurt by lower volumes on passenger cars like its Civic.
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Volkswagen reiterated it expects vehicle deliveries in 2019 to exceed a prior-year figure and for revenue in the passenger cars and commercial vehicles divisions to grow at least 5%.
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The city is expected to absorb almost 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide - the equivalent emissions of 2,000 passenger cars driven for a year - and 57 tons of pollutants per year.
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The German automaker known for its compact passenger cars unveiled the Atlas Tanoak pickup truck concept on Wednesday, in one of the biggest surprises of the New York Auto Show.
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This is a classification that covers minivans, trucks, and passenger cars, but is reserved for vehicles that meet economical fuel consumption standards and are consequently taxed at a lower rate.
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And IHS predicts that by 2022, 73 percent of passenger cars sold will be equipped with an internet-based entertainment portal or web-connected system for things like safety alerts.
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Consumers have taken advantage of cheaper gasoline to buy larger, more powerful vehicles, in effect swapping passenger cars for crossover-utility vehicles, blunting the previous trend towards greater fuel economy.
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The planned reductions are the equivalent of taking 32 million passenger cars off the road for an entire year or planting 3.8 billion trees and growing them for 10 years.
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"That's roughly equivalent to the carbon emissions associated with increasing the number of passenger cars on the planet by a third," BP chief economist Spencer Dale said in the report.
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While sales of its passenger cars declined by 27 percent, the company said that sales of its Jeep S.U.V.s and Ram pickups both rose by 23 percent during the month.
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There are over 250 million passenger cars and trucks in the U.S. which are not going to be replaced by electric vehicles overnight, and in the meantime will need gas.
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A 50:50 JV with Honda Motor Company - Dongfeng Motor Company Limited, 2003 known as DFL - produces passenger cars under the Nissan brand and commercial vehicles under the Dongfeng brand.
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Fiat Chrysler's move out of passenger cars was masterminded by Sergio Marchionne, the Fiat chief executive who took control of Chrysler after its 2009 bankruptcy, and merged the two companies.
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Improvements in the mix and price positioning in particular compensated for lower sales of Volkswagen Passenger Cars models and for launch costs and negative exchange rate effects, the company said.
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Sales of its passenger cars, like Chrysler and Dodge vehicles in the United States and Fiat models in Europe, have struggled mightily in a market shifting away from traditional sedans.
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Ford on Monday posted a 483 percent fall in fourth-quarter vehicle sales as soft demand for passenger cars outweighed stable sales of larger sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and pickups.
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Continental had said in January it was reviewing its Powertrain division after earnings at the business, which makes electric and combustion engines mainly for passenger cars, failed to meet expectations.
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Suggesting information and content that best connects with the passenger, cars can provide handy information such as area restaurants and local attractions, which will drive third-party e-commerce opportunities.
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Some of the headwinds include rising fuel efficiency in the United States, adoption of electric buses and natural-gas fueled trucks in China, and purchases of battery-powered passenger cars.
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Ford has strong sales and profits in the United States thanks to its exposure to the lucrative pickup truck segment, while Volkswagen dominates the market for passenger cars in Europe.
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GM's South Korean operations, which employ 220,200 people, allowed it to quickly offer new small crossovers in the early-2010s, capitalizing on U.S. consumer preference moving away from passenger cars.
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Volkswagen was among the first manufacturers to offer affordable diesel passenger cars that did not smoke and rattle, and parlayed its technical advantage into dominance of the European car market.
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But automakers have been helped by a shift by U.S. consumers away from traditional passenger cars towards larger, more comfortable SUVs and trucks, which tend to be more profitable for producers.
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Ford, which is also gradually phasing out production of most passenger cars in the United States, said total sales fell 3.9 percent to 192,616 vehicles, hurt by lower passenger car demand.
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MI) - which are pulling back from passenger cars as American consumers abandon them in favor of higher-margin, more comfortable pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers - Toyota, Honda Motor Co Ltd (7267.
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In early 2018, Ford said it plans to phase out the production of passenger cars for the North American market, in favor of more popular and profitable trucks, SUVs and crossovers.
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That turned a lot of part-time drivers away as they either don't want to invest the time and money preparing for exams or scrap their passenger cars after eight years.
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It handled the curves of the roads with ease and its wide body and higher rear end provided a sense of security even while driving amid other much larger passenger cars.
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Earlier this year, the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act was proposed in the US House of Representatives, seeking to ban the sale of gas-powered passenger cars in the US by 2040.
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Daimler's third-quarter operating profit rose 23 percent as higher earnings from passenger cars offset falling demand for trucks, helping the group to keep to its forecast for higher annual profit.
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Last-mile delivery vehicles, roughly the size of passenger cars, travel on public roads, and would generally require customers to go to the curb to pick up deliveries from the vehicle.
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Scheider said ZF would specialize in autonomous driving for commercial vehicles from van size upwards, such as robotaxis, as it believes the technology will be too expensive for private passenger cars.
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"We reiterate our 'Buy' on Daimler on the expected outperformance in passenger cars (further market share gains, best-in-class margins), especially over BMW," analysts at UBS said in a note.
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Ford shares plunged nearly 4 percent to a 21-month low after its April sales fell 7.1 percent, with demand soft for its passenger cars and unexpected weakness in light trucks.
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The sales have dropped 44.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019 in passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, association also said, despite extended taxcuts by the government to encourage purchases.
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Some analysts already foresee the demise or slow death of diesel as a fuel for passenger cars, even as it remains the dominant fuel for buses, construction equipment and heavy trucks.
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They are expected to account for almost half of all new passenger cars in OECD countries by 2040, with almost a quarter of those in China and more than 26% globally.
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ISTANBUL, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey tumbled 59 percent in January from a year earlier, the Automotive Distributors' Association (ODD) said on Monday.
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Total industry sales for passenger cars rose 14 percent, commercial vehicles sales fell 41 percent and special-purpose vehicles sales dropped 34 percent in the period compared with a month earlier.
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Nissan has decided to recall all 1.2 million new passenger cars it sold in Japan over the past three years after discovering final vehicle inspections were not performed by authorised technicians.
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The U.S. automaker last month said it would stop selling passenger cars by the end of the year after two decades in a market where it commands less than one percent.
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The searches form part of an investigation into employees of Porsche AG suspected of fraud and fraudulent advertising tied to manipulated emissions control systems of diesel passenger cars, the prosecutors said.
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Japan wants to phase out the EU's 10 percent tariff on Japanese passenger cars over the next five to 10 years and scrap a 4 percent tariff on many car parts.
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The finance ministry said in a statement that the individual consumption taxes on passenger cars would also be cut to 3.5 percent from 5 percent, effective until the end of June.
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She was on the scene in Philadelphia in May 2015, she said, when eight passengers were killed and 185 were taken to hospitals after a locomotive and seven passenger cars derailed.
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Those federal figures dropped steadily from 5.32 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 19603 to 2.4 in the late 1980s, when airbags began to appear commonly in passenger cars.
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Why it matters: Unmanned delivery vehicles are different from self-driving passenger cars, but both require exemptions from federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSS) in order to operate on public roads.
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Just before dusk on a Saturday in September, about 215 people piled into a couple of passenger cars and a converted baggage car equipped with two bars and a sound system.
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Exports of motor vehicles and parts were down 2.8 percent in February, mainly on lower exports of passenger cars and light trucks coinciding with a slowdown in auto production that month.
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He said a previously announced target to discontinue production of diesel passenger cars in Europe by 2021 was "too aggressive" and the company would keep producing diesel models beyond that date.
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Passenger cars, including taxis and Ubers, were all but banned from 14th Street, a major crosstown route for 21,000 vehicles a day that links the East and West Sides of Manhattan.
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Rival Toyota Motor earlier reported a 2 percent fall in U.S. auto sales, hurt by a slump in demand for its passenger cars, although it said SUV sales rose 8.9 percent.
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Between 1997 and 218.5, the number of kilometres driven by passenger cars has increased by only 223.5 percent but the distance driven by LGVs rose by nearly 22.6 percent (tmsnrt.rs/26.6px22007oLp).
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The key target was that automakers would have to reduce their average greenhouse gas emissions from the passenger cars and light trucks they sell to 258 grams per mile by 260.
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By favoring right-hand turns at all times -- unless a left is unavoidable -- the carrier saves millions of gallons of fuel each year, and avoids emissions equivalent to over 2100,2185 passenger cars.
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After struggling to make money from passenger cars in South America, China and Europe, Ford has dropped its focus on the Mondeo as a model for the world and abandoned new sedans.
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The construction would be part of a reorganisation of its Malaysian operations, under which the existing factory would stop building passenger cars and focus on commercial vehicles, Toyota said in a statement.
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The company's decision to kill off most of its unprofitable passenger cars in the U.S. market meant that its revenue rose 2 percent despite a 14 percent drop in wholesale unit sales.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board said Tuesday they had approved an emissions fix for 24,000 Audi 3.0-liter passenger cars as Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.
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Electric car sales in India, one of the world's fastest-growing auto markets, made up less than 0.1 percent of annual sales of more than 3 million passenger cars in 2017-2018.
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So when you think about Tesla and passenger cars, the variation you'd get in a Tesla car is much lower than you do in others, because they want to focus on scale.
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Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Mitsubishi Motors Corp together sold 10.76 million passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in 2018, according to Reuters' calculations after new data released on Wednesday.
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The auto supplier initiated the review after earnings in its Powertrain business - that makes electric and combustion engines mainly for passenger cars - failed to meet expectations, Schaefer told Reuters in an interview.
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Most Chinese passenger cars run on gasoline, boosting demand for refiners, though analysts note that much of the recent growth in sales has been pegged to generous tax breaks for car buyers.
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"The main reason is the continued decline in the global production of passenger cars and light vehicles," Continental said, adding that car production will likely drop by 5% rather than remain flat.
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Volkswagen reiterated it wanted to achieve an operating return on sales of between 6.5 and 7.5 percent for the passenger cars division and the group this year, a step welcomed by analysts.
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It reiterated that after special items, it expects the operating return on sales to be at the lower end of the expected range for the group and the passenger cars business area.
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Fiorani said Renault's CMF architecture, which was jointly developed with Nissan and underpins many of Renault's passenger cars and crossovers, could be used by Fiat Chrysler on a wide variety of vehicles.
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Instead, the bulk of new vehicles sold in the US were lightweight pickup trucks, which tend to guzzle gas compared to passenger cars — and the availability of cheap gas played a role.
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The order for up to 999 multilevel passenger cars, including options, would be one of the largest contracts in years if most of the options are exercised, one of the sources said.
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Pressure to develop electric and autonomous cars has seen research and development expenditure costs at Mercedes-Benz passenger cars rise to 14 billion euros from around 8 billion euros four years ago.
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But as Americans shift away from passenger cars and toward SUVs, some specialty automakers that once would have only sold sports cars are having to adjust lineups or risk being left behind.
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Around half of all passenger cars sold in India fall under the Suzuki brand, but higher commodity prices and a weakening rupee have dented demand for cars in the past few months.
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Registrations of new passenger cars in Europe's largest vehicle market increased 11.4 percent year-on-year to 360,000 autos last month, Germany's KBA vehicle authority said on Tuesday, confirming a Reuters story.
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ISTANBUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey slid 4003% year-on-year in July to 17,927 vehicles, the Automotive Distributors' Association (ODD) said on Friday.
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Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler AG has set the most ambitious target of any major automaker to cut its planet-warming emissions, promising a fully carbon-neutral fleet of passenger cars by 2039.
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ISTANBUL, July 2 (Reuters) - Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey slid 16.4% year-on-year in June to 42,688 vehicles, the Automative Distributors' Association (ODD) said on Tuesday.
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For well over a year, Mr. Ayala had been pushing Volkswagen to explain why its diesel passenger cars polluted so much more in ordinary driving than they did in California testing labs.
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As a result, the return on sales for passenger cars will likely be at the lower end of its 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent margin target for the year, the carmaker said.
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The carmaker's discovery that uncertified technicians had signed off on final inspections led to the suspension of domestic production of all passenger cars it makes for its home market on Oct. 19.
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Norway is a leader in the adoption of zero-emission vehicles and the government has set an ambitious goal to stop selling new gas and diesel passenger cars and vans by 2025.
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In 2015, passenger cars accounted for 40 percent of sales in the U.S. automotive market, down from 44 percent in 2014 and 51 percent in 2012, according to industry consultant Autodata Corp.
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While demand for passenger cars in the European Union alone increased only modestly by 2.2 percent, the 1,078,503 registrations comes close to February 2008 levels, just before the economic crisis hit, ACEA said.
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Both Volkswagen Truck & Bus, the world's third-largest commercial vehicle maker, and Hino said the partnership would not change their respective relationships with their parent groups which are fierce competitors in passenger cars.
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Expensive consumer durables such as washing machines or passenger cars tend to diffuse through a population following an S-curve – slowly at first, then more rapidly, before tapering off as market saturation nears.
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Mr. Fields said that Ford did not need to adjust its production plans to add more trucks for sale in the United States — or to reduce the number of slower-selling passenger cars.
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ISTANBUL, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey tumbled 68 percent in September from a year earlier to 23,028 vehicles, the Automotive Distributors Association said on Tuesday.
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The Commission said that an EU country was free to introduce road charges for goods vehicles and passenger cars, but, if it wanted foreigners to pay, then the charges must apply to all.
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"We're not soulless, driverless pods yet," said Tim Kuniskis, the head of passenger cars for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, in defense of the internal combustion engine, as we waited at the track to dry.
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Price said self-driving trucks have advantages over passenger cars, including the relative ease of operating on interstates compared with city centers, which reduces mapping requirements and safety challenges involving pedestrians and bicyclists.
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UBS warned that its global autos team expects diesel to "disappear almost completely" from passenger cars by 2025, falling to a 4 percent market share as hybrids and electric cars increase their presence.
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The petrochemicals giant is also helping to develop mobile carbon capture technologies which could be built into next generation passenger cars for around $1,400 per vehicle, and help to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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NordLB analyst Frank Schwope, who rates Skoda shares a "hold", said that the carmaker would have to fight tooth and nail in the United States, citing the country's saturated market for passenger cars.
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In February Daimler had said it expected only slight growth in group EBIT, but record sales of Mercedes passenger cars in the first quarter helped the Stuttgart-based carmaker produce forecast-beating results.
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But the decline in gasoline prices is now spurring a big increase in sales of both trucks and CUVs at the expense of regular passenger cars, causing an underlying deterioration in fuel economy.
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ISTANBUL, April 2 (Reuters) - Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey tumbled 35.5 percent year-on-year in March to 49,221 vehicles, the Automative Distributors' Association (ODD) said on Tuesday.
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A spokeswoman for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars said the luxury auto maker was preparing to re-enter Iran's market, but said it was too early to provide details about how this would happen.
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He said, however, that "Plan B" for Mexico would be to revert to World Trade Organization tariff rates for exports to the United States such as the 2.5 percent tariff for passenger cars.
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Like many of its peers, Ford has faced declining demand for its passenger cars, and on Wednesday said it will not invest in next-generation models of its traditional sedans for North America.
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ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey tumbled 42.3 percent in November from a year earlier to 58,204 vehicles, the Automotive Distributors Association said on Tuesday.
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A Mercedes spokesperson was not immediately able to comment on the agreement about a distribution center — although she said no decision had been taken about starting local production of passenger cars in Egypt.
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Mercedes-Benz ended local production of passenger cars in Egypt in 2015 over fears that free trade agreements the country signed with the EU would make assembly not profitable in the long run.
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As U.S. consumers have shifted away from traditional passenger cars in favor of roomier, higher-margin sport utility vehicles, crossovers and pickup trucks, automakers have been left juggling production capacity to catch up.
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The German automaker known for zippy passenger cars pulled off perhaps the biggest surprise of the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday by revealing a pickup truck concept: the Volkswagen Atlas Tanoak.
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SF is also likely to benefit (more than its main peers) from expected government support of the leasing industry in 2016, as this will presumably target only commercial vehicles rather than passenger cars.
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The study found that with services like UberPOOL and Lyft Line, 3,000 four-passenger cars could handle 98% of the capacity of 14,000 NYC cabs with an average wait time of 2.7 minutes.
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"It is because we had a high number in 2017 that the 2018 market has so much pressure," Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the China Passenger Cars Association, said in a phone interview.
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The Chinese company building Antelope Valley's electric buses, BYD, is unknown to most Americans, but it is the world's largest manufacturer of electric vehicles — everything from forklifts to passenger cars and semi trucks.
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German carmaker Volkswagen posted a forecast-beating 23 percent rise in underlying quarterly operating profit on Wednesday, even as difficulties conforming to new anti-pollution rules cloud the sales outlook for passenger cars.
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And with the American market tilting more than ever toward sales of pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, companies are cutting production of passenger cars to reduce big inventories of slow-selling models.
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BERLIN, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Registrations of new passenger cars in Germany fell about 1 percent year-on-year in December to about 254,000 vehicles, an auto-industry source said, citing two fewer selling days.
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"We're going to use as many parts from existing passenger cars and other models as possible in fuel cell trucks," said Ikuo Ota, manager of new business planning for fuel cell projects at Toyota.
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Registrations of passenger cars in Europe's largest auto market still rose 4 percent in the January-to-March period to about 879,000 vehicles, making it the strongest first quarter since 2000, the source said.
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Together, the joint ventures have delivered more than 4,000 railway passenger cars, 580 electric locomotives and over 2,500 metro cars, Monorail, APM (Automated People Mover), and trams to China's growing urban mass-transit markets.
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Workers in Lordstown built the Chevrolet Cruze, a sedan, sales of which had plummeted in the last few years as Americans abandoned passenger cars in favor of larger, more comfortable pickup trucks and SUVs.
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In February, Daimler had said it expected only slight growth in group EBIT, but record sales of Mercedes passenger cars in the first quarter helped the Stuttgart-based carmaker to achieve forecast-beating results.
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"Even in part-time autonomous passenger cars with steering wheels, the space saved by eliminating the steering column opens up completely new possibilities for vehicle and cab interior design," Schaeffler said in a statement.
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The EU focus is on selective catalytic reduction systems to reduce harmful nitrogen oxides emissions of diesel passenger cars through the injection of urea, which is also called AdBlue, in the exhaust gas stream.
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As the entire U.S. auto market shifts further away from passenger cars and toward utility vehicles, automakers are paying what observers say is an unprecedented amount of attention to high-performance pickups and SUVs.
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In the first four months of this year, German-made vehicles accounted for 20.8 percent of passenger cars sold in China, or 1.67 million units, the association said in an online post dated Friday.
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Sedans and other traditional passenger cars are losing their grip on American consumer appetites, but automakers are still finding ways to make money on at least some of them, by doing more with less.
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He estimates that fewer than 10 percent of the new vehicle models that GM will introduce over the next four years will be passenger cars, with the rest divided among trucks, SUVs and crossovers.
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GM's sales jumped nearly 12 percent versus September 2016 as a 43 percent increase in sales of crossovers and a 27 percent rise for pickup trucks offset an 210 percent decline for passenger cars.
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The share of new diesel passenger cars has decreased since 2015, when Volkswagen admitted it had cheated U.S. emissions tests by using software installed in as many as 11 million diesel vehicles sold worldwide.
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The group sold 2.34 million Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in 2019 for a ninth consecutive year of record sales, putting it in pole position to retain the title of biggest-selling premium car brand.
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What they're saying: The International Energy Agency's central long-term scenario shows oil demand is several million barrels per day higher in 2040, even though use in passenger cars peaks in the mid-2020s.
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The EU currently imposes tariffs of 10 percent on imports of passenger cars compared to the 2.5 percent duty currently imposed by the U.S. Read the full story at the Financial Times website here.
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Ford's results rounded off American automakers' sales for 248, with passenger cars falling out of favor with buyers amid lower oil prices and as automakers focused on SUVs and pickups that are more profitable.
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One industry analyst said Tuesday that automakers in general were looking to build popular S.U.V. models in the United States and concentrate production of slow-selling, less profitable passenger cars in lower-cost nations.
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The company, which makes aircraft engines and turbochargers for passenger cars and commercial vehicles, said it expects fourth-quarter earnings of about $1.74 per share, compared with its previously forecast range of $1.74-$1.78.
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Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey slid 54.6% year-on-year May to 33,016 vehicles, the association said, while sales dropped 49.6% in the first five months of the year.
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Russia's Trade and Industry Ministry said in a statement that the Daimler plant will produce more than 20,000 Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and SUVS per year under an agreement that will run for nine years.
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And just last week, a bill, called the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act, was proposed in the US House of Representatives seeking to ban the sale of gas-powered passenger cars in the US by 2040.
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It also expects to raise its market share in South Africa to "more than 15 percent" by 2022, from 10 percent in 2017, Kargar said, by selling fewer pick-up trucks and more passenger cars.
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Pressure to develop electric and autonomous cars has led R&D costs at Mercedes-Benz passenger cars to rise to 22016 billion euros ($21 billion) from around 20.8940 billion euros four years ago, Zetsche said.
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It formed its 50:50 JV with JAC in 2017 to research and develop zero-emission passenger cars as the German automaker has committed almost one-third of the industry's EV spending, about $91 billion.
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If Trump imposes so-called Section 232 autos tariffs on national security grounds, Mexico and Canada would each get a tariff-free annual quota of 2.6 million passenger cars for export to the United States.
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Mercedes-Benz sold 2.31 million passenger cars last year, making it the top-selling premium automotive brand in 2018, although some analysts are questioning how much longer German manufacturers can dominate the luxury car industry.
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I think we're at a place where passenger cars are almost past the point of causing "range anxiety," but these two segments might be the last ones where consumers feel comfortable with all-electric tech.
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The deal gives BP a role in Brazil's booming ethanol market ahead of a new federal policy next year aimed at boosting use of biofuels, which are used interchangeably with gasoline in Brazilian passenger cars.
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It formed its 50:50 JV with JAC in 2017 to research and develop zero-emission passenger cars as the German automaker has committed almost one-third of the industrys EV spending, about $91 billion.
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In recent years, Toyota has been boosting investment in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, designing lower-cost, mass market passenger cars and SUVs and pushing the technology into buses and trucks to build economies of scale.
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ABB, which has delivered more than 5,000 networked charging systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles worldwide, said this latest EnBW order follows a previous order from the utility for 68 of them last year.
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Cost cuts at the core passenger-cars division have caused the world's largest automaker to raise its profit target for the year, and it has since also upgraded its mid-term profit and sales guidance.
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In 2014, the last year before oil prices crashed, the Energy Information Administration projected passenger cars and trucks would travel 2,20183 billion miles in 2025 and achieve average fuel economy of 28.7 miles per gallon.
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While Bosch had extensive experience in the development of water-injection systems for motor sports, where minimizing weight and maximizing performance are the primary considerations, developing a version suitable for passenger cars presented a challenge.
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As you know, the [Drug Enforcement Agency] says that the heroin that is coming into our country and creating this scourge comes through legal ports of entry through private passenger cars and through tractor trailers.
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Western Europe sales reached 765,383 passenger cars, LMC Automotive said, basing its forecast on national registration data and its own estimates ahead of the official sales data release by the ACEA association on Sept. 15.
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Pressure to develop electric and autonomous cars has led R&D costs at Mercedes-Benz passenger cars to rise to 22016 billion euros ($15.7 billion) from around 8 billion euros four years ago, Zetsche said.
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But after deducting 16.2 billion euros to pay for the Dieselgate settlement, and an additional 400 million euros to restructure commercial vehicles and passenger cars, the company swung to a 4.1 billion euros operating loss.
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"GM to stop production of the Chevrolet Sonic, Ford plans to end U.S. sales of Fiesta and Taurus amid Detroit's broader exodus from passenger cars," the Wall Street Journal's Mike Colias and Christina Rogers report.
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And those that cannot comply with standards for passenger cars could simply pay tariffs of around $800 to $900 per vehicle and buy low-cost parts from Asia to offset the cost, industry experts said.
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His prescription called for Ford to refocus investments on growing markets like China and highly profitable vehicles like trucks and S.U.V.s, while cutting back on initiatives in less promising areas like Europe and passenger cars.
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Ford's results rounded off U.S. automakers' sales for 248, with passenger cars falling out of favor with buyers amid lower oil prices and as automakers focused on SUVs and pick-ups that are more profitable.
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Larger cars have become more popular over the years, and even though more people still die in collisions with passenger cars, pedestrian fatalities involving SUVs have been increasing at a higher rate, the report explains.
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Norway wants all new passenger cars and vans sold in the country to be zero-emission vehicles by 2025, and India has called for new cars sold there to be powered by electricity by 2030.
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His prescription called for Ford to refocus investments on growing markets like China and highly profitable vehicles like trucks and S.U.V.s, while cutting back on initiatives in less promising areas like Europe and passenger cars.
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Sales of trucks and sport utility vehicles continued to gain market share at the expense of traditional passenger cars, benefiting automakers that have recently added new S.U.V. models, including General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and Toyota.
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Larger school buses, by design, are safer than passenger cars because they are heavier and come outfitted with strong, closely spaced seats that offer crash protection even without seatbelts, according to the traffic safety administration.
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It sold 2.34 million Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in 2019 for a ninth consecutive year of record sales, putting the German carmaker in pole position to retain the title of biggest-selling premium car brand.
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Beginning in the 3753s, Bosch played a major role in refining diesel technology for passenger cars, providing sophisticated fuel injection systems and computers that sit under the hood and manage the operations of the engine.
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"I think we are a long way from airless tires on passenger cars... When the cost, performance, lifespan, and recyclability are competitive with pneumatic tires, then there's a chance they could enter the consumer space."
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In May, German competitor BMW warned on profits, citing higher than expected investments, while Volkswagen said the return on sales at its passenger cars division would come in at the lower end of its target.
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Nissan said this week it would recall all 1.2 million new passenger cars it sold in Japan over the past three years after discovering final vehicle inspections were not performed by authorised technicians at six factories.
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Sales of Volkswagen and Audi passenger cars have sagged as European customers increasingly shun diesel cars and as the German brands struggle to get their vehicles to conform with new Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle standards (WLTP).
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He was also responsible for development of all electronics for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and for battery development, including stationary battery storage systems and the building of a factory to manufacture battery packs for electric cars.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the derailment of Amtrak Cascades Train 501, which sent 12 passenger cars and a locomotive hurtling off a bridge onto Interstate 5 during the morning commute.
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The deal gives BP a key role in Brazil's booming ethanol market ahead of a new federal policy next year aimed at boosting use of biofuels, which are used interchangeably with gasoline in Brazilian passenger cars.
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Registrations of new passenger cars in Europe's largest auto market still showed an increase of around 4.5 to 5 percent in the January-to-October period to around 2.8 million vehicles, the source said on Wednesday.
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SIAM earlier estimated sales of passenger cars and utility vehicles to grow by as much as 12 percent in the fiscal year starting April 1, higher than the 8 percent growth estimated for the current year.
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China's search engine giant Baidu is continuing its partnership spree for Apollo, its open development platform for autonomous driving, after it inked a deal with Swedish automaker Volvo to develop level four self-driving passenger cars.
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Johnson Controls' power solutions business, which produces and distributes about 154 million lead-acid batteries for passenger cars and light trucks annually, carries higher margins but has been capital intensive for Johnson Controls, analysts have said.
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Still, analysts have said VW may incur problems with tightening emissions rules in Europe, China and other regions as it pushes to launch more than 45 SUVs which typically consume more fuel than ordinary passenger cars.
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Johnson Controls' power solutions business, which makes and distributes about 154 million lead-acid batteries for passenger cars and light trucks annually, carries higher margins but has been capital intensive for Johnson Controls, analysts have said.
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General Motors will continue to reduce production of passenger cars in order to retool its product mix in favor of the trucks, SUV's and crossovers customers are buying, Chief Financial Officer Chuck Stevens told investors Tuesday.
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NJ Transit, the largest statewide public transportation system in the United States, has previously said it will order 113 multi-level passenger cars to modernize its aging fleet, which has been criticized for overcrowding and delays.
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Why it matters: Major progress in electrifying the transport sector — not only passenger cars, but also trucks, buses and other transport — will be vital in achieving very steep greenhouse gas emissions cuts in the coming decades.
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Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler were among the biggest boosts to the STOXX, up 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent, after China said it would cut the import duty on passenger cars and auto parts from July 1.
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An easing of federal standards for passenger cars, which together with the rest of the transportation sector emit more carbon dioxide than any other part of the American economy, could have immense implications for overall emissions.
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But if manufacturers were to focus more on reducing the weight of their smallest passenger cars, that could be worse for overall auto safety, since those cars would be more vulnerable in crashes with bigger vehicles.
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Among euro zone stocks, German auto supplier Continental slumped 10.5% after it posted a net loss of 1.2 billion euros ($1.34 billion) in 2019, as it suffered from a global downturn in demand for passenger cars.
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Qualcomm today unveiled a new automotive platform called Snapdragon Ride that's designed to power all levels of automated driving, from today's active safety systems in passenger cars to the robotaxis that may someday ply city streets.
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"In a short period from now they will be able to do 15 to 20 million lines of programming code on an annual basis," Volkswagen China's passenger cars chief Stephan Woellenstein said in Shanghai on Monday.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board said Tuesday they had approved an emissions fix for 0.23,000 Audi 3.0-liter passenger cars as Volkswagen looks to move beyond its diesel emissions crisis.
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Daimler's premium passenger-cars division on Monday said its global sales jumped 13 percent to a record 8183,625 models, thanks to strong compact-car and SUV demand, with China alone posting record growth of 39 percent.
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"The issues facing autonomous commercial trucks are fundamentally different, and potentially more calamitous than those facing passenger cars, and warrant their own careful consideration," said Ken Hall, general secretary-treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
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Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles slid 56% year-on-year in April, the Automotive Distributors' Association (ODD) said earlier this month, adding that sales dropped 48% in the first four months of the year.
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The automakers siding with the administration, led by the industry group the Association of Global Automakers, say that the federal government, not California, has the ultimate authority to set fuel economy standards for passenger cars and trucks.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish luxury electric carmaker Polestar, which is jointly owned by Volvo Cars and its Chinese parent Geely, is setting up an R&D center in Britain to develop future passenger cars, it said on Wednesday.
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While the sales of passenger cars fell 15.2% year-on-year in the first five months of 2019, new energy vehicle sales were up 41.5% in the same period, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
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Registrations fell to 262,833 passenger cars last month, the KBA motor vehicle authority said on Wednesday, confirming a Reuters story, while 10-month sales in Europe's biggest auto market were up 4.9 percent at 2.82 million cars.
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The consultancies said that in October consumers continued to shift away from passenger cars to pickup trucks and SUVs, which accounted for more than 20183 percent of retail sales in the first 17 selling days of October.
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The unit, which makes starter motors and generators for passenger cars and commercial vehicles - an area that is much less technology-driven than other parts or Bosch's portfolio - is under pressure from competition in lower-cost countries.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Daimler's third-quarter operating profit rose as higher earnings from passenger cars offset falling demand for trucks, helping the group to keep to its guidance for a small increase in full-year profit.
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Last year, BMW retained the title of largest premium automaker, posting sales of 1.91 million BMW branded passenger cars while Mercedes sold 1.87 million cars, compared with a 3.6 percent jump to 1.8 million sold by Audi.
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That was even as registrations of passenger-cars and light commercial vehicles in the U.S. fell 2 percent to about 17.1 million units, the VDA German auto industry association said on Monday at the Detroit auto show.
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Four of New Jersey Transit's locomotives were 37 years old, each having traveled more than 753 million miles, according to the 2017 data, and more than 150 of its passenger cars were at least 40 years old.
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The commercial vehicle emissions curbs are one of several steps the Obama administration has taken to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars, light trucks, airplanes and power plants without the collaboration of the Republican-controlled Congress.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler said it will spend 3 billion euros ($3.35 billion) to curtail diesel exhaust pollution levels by modifying its engines and exhaust treatment systems including through a software update for some Mercedes-Benz passenger cars.
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The Boring Company did produce a concept video for what its underground train service might look like three months ago, and the concept animation showed 16-passenger cars, much like the ones that are currently proposed for Chicago.
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At the end of its first quarter, the second-largest U.S. automaker said it will stop selling traditional passenger cars in the U.S. and eventually winnowed the list of expected survivors to just one sports car — the Mustang.
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In India, NBFCs have in recent years helped fund nearly 212-235% of commercial vehicles both new and used, 27% of passenger cars and nearly 249% of the two-wheelers in the country, according to rating agency ICRA.
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Per the report: Oil use in passenger cars falls from roughly 22 mbd right now to slightly under 20 mbd as efficiency gains (the biggest factor) and EVs offset the huge rise of cars on the world's roads.
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The searches were initiated in the course of investigations "against known and unknown employees at Daimler, who are suspected of fraud and misleading advertising connected to manipulated emissions treatment of diesel passenger cars," the Stuttgart prosecutor's office said.
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One big question: Electric and autonomous vehicles and shared mobility will shake up transportation, but there's no consensus on how quickly they might cause oil demand to decline, given that passenger cars represent only 25% of oil use.
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Year-to-date registrations of new passenger cars in Europe's largest auto market were up 2.2 percent at 2.61 million units, said the source, who asked not to be identified because official sales data have been released yet.
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A deal between the French and the Germans has been under consideration for years, even before 2012 when GM and Peugeot signed a deal to develop some passenger cars together, Robert Peugeot's cousin Jean-Philippe told the paper.
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In India, NBFCs have in recent years helped fund nearly 27-249% of commercial vehicles both new and used, 230% of passenger cars and nearly 65% of the two-wheelers in the country, according to rating agency ICRA.
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Daimler can build on a long and successful history in Iran: The company has been present in the market with Mercedes-Benz trucks and passenger cars since 1953, interrupted only by the sanctions phase between 2010 and 2016.
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Cadillac has garnered praise for its luxury and high-performance sedans such as the CT6 and the CTS-V, but the brand has missed out on the shift in the market away from passenger cars and toward SUVs.
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Nearly a third of the around 1,400 consumers surveyed said they were planning to buy more imported merchandise over the next six months, especially cosmetics, watches and glasses, baby products, passenger cars and jewellery, the commerce ministry said.
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Sales of GM passenger cars plunged 17 percent in the first half and 36 percent in June, exceeding the industry-wide declines of 12 percent in the first half and 14 percent in June, according to Automotive News.
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Under that plan, unveiled in January, drivers could have been charged a daily fee — $11.52 for passenger cars, $25.34 for trucks — to enter a congestion zone in Manhattan, from 60th Street south to the Battery, at busy times.
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Musk said that in future the tunnel loop might carry passenger cars on "skates" that whizz them through the tunnels, or that cars might eventually be fitted retractable side wheel, so they could travel through the tunnel autonomously.
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Daimler said on Thursday it had sold 2.34 million Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in 2019 for a ninth consecutive year of record sales.. BMW said its BMW brand posted a sales record of 2.17 million vehicles in 2019.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Major automakers posted mixed U.S. new vehicle sales in October on Wednesday, though America's love affair with high-margin pickup trucks and SUVs remained in full bloom as larger, pricier vehicles fared better than passenger cars.
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Chairman Wang Chuanfu of BYD, which makes China's best-selling plug-in hybrid, said he expects buses to achieve full electrification, with commercial vehicles being completely electrified within the decade and passenger cars being fully converted by 2030.
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The EPA allegations encompass about 482,000 diesel passenger cars that have been sold since 2009 in the US. The defeat device was uncovered by independent researchers at West Virginia University working with the International Council on Clean Transportation.
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Authorities searched Daimler's offices and other premises on Tuesday as part of an investigation of Daimler employees who the Stuttgart prosecutor's office said were suspected of fraud and misleading advertising connected with manipulated emissions treatment of diesel passenger cars.
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The new features and updated styling were done to better compete against crossovers and SUVs, segments customers have been flocking to from passenger cars for their space, capability and safety – three areas Chrysler concentrated on for the 215 Pacifica.
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STOCKHOLM, May 8 (Reuters) - Swedish luxury electric carmaker Polestar, which is jointly owned by Volvo Cars and its Chinese parent Geely, is setting up an R&D centre in Britain to develop future passenger cars, it said on Wednesday.
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Over the first nine months of this year, Italy, Spain, Germany, France and the U.K. saw the number of passenger cars going up; with the first two registering double-digit growth rates of 17.4 percent and 11.5 percent, respectively.
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Commuter rail services like Amtrak operate on tracks owned by other companies—companies that prioritize freight cars and have limited interest in making sure passenger cars can hit their top speeds or get to their destinations with minimal delays.
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These companies also fund a significant proportion of their financing through joint facilities with banks, which usually means that banks' higher regulatory minimum down payment applies - this is 20% for motorcycles and commercial cars and 25% for passenger cars.
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The prosecutors searched Daimler's offices and other premises on Tuesday as part of an investigation of Daimler employees who the prosecutor's office said were suspected of fraud and misleading advertising connected with manipulated emissions treatment of diesel passenger cars.
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The cuts come as part of a plan to cut back on the production of slower-selling sedans and traditional passenger cars, as GM doubles down on the more profitable and faster-selling trucks, sport utility vehicles and crossovers.
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Since Ford CEO Jim Hackett took the job in May 2017, the automaker has said it will phase out the production of almost all of its traditional passenger cars, invest in new businesses and cut jobs around the world.
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ISTANBUL, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey surged 127.5% year-on-year in October, the Automotive Distributors Association said on Monday, after a sharp fall in the same period a year earlier.
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The KBA also said total registrations in Germany fell 3.4 percent to 347,433 passenger cars, because of two fewer selling days, though first-quarter registrations increased 4 percent to 878,611 vehicles, confirming what an auto industry source told Reuters.
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The Commission stipulated in 2014 that the carmaker should receive no more than 17 million euros ($18.9 million) to expand production of two models of electric and hybrid passenger cars in Leipzig, a project expected to create 800 jobs.
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The Commission stipulated in 2014 that the carmaker should receive no more than 17 million euros ($20 million) to expand production of two models of electric and hybrid passenger cars in Leipzig, a project expected to create 800 jobs.
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Sedan sales have plummeted over the same period: Where passenger cars represented half of car sales just a decade ago, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, they fell to less than a third by the end of 246.
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Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, pointed out that 98 percent of American imports of passenger cars last year came from five American allies: Mexico, Canada, the European Union, Japan and South Korea.
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Retail sales of passenger cars in China crumbled 53% on an annual basis in the first 16 days of February, according to China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), as the coronavirus outbreak slammed the brakes on businesses across the country.
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Registrations of new passenger cars in Europe's largest auto market rose to more than 280,000 vehicles last month, from 256,385 a year earlier, the source said on Thursday, with five-month sales up between 6.5 percent and 6.8 percent.
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In early June, the European auto industry association ACEA hiked its 2016 EU sales forecast to 14 million passenger cars or 5 percent growth year-on-year, compared with an earlier forecast of 2 percent sales growth, predicted in January.
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"The issues facing autonomous commercial trucks are fundamentally different, and potentially more calamitous, than those facing passenger cars, and warrant their own careful consideration," Teamsters rep Ken Hall told the Senate during a hearing on autonomous trucks earlier this month.
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BEIJING, April 26 (Reuters) - China is considering cutting the import duty on passenger cars by about half as part of the country's plan to further open up the automobile market, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler is looking to make 6 billion euros ($6.75 billion) in cost savings and efficiency gains by 2021 at Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and a further 2 billion euros at its Daimler Trucks division, Manager Magazin said on Thursday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Mercedes-Benz sold 2.31 million passenger cars last year, likely enough to make it the top-selling premium automotive brand in 2018, although some analysts are questioning how much longer German manufacturers can dominate the luxury car industry.
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The searches were initiated in the course of investigations "against known and unknown employees at Daimler, who are suspected of fraud and misleading advertising connected to manipulated emissions treatment of diesel passenger cars," the prosecutor's office said at the time.
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In March, Ford executives unveiled ambitious plans to shift the struggling automaker's product portfolio from passenger cars to SUVs, add more hybrid and pure electric vehicles, and reduce development and manufacturing costs - aimed at boosting profits and the automaker's share price.
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Eurotunnel, which also shuttles trains containing passenger cars, coaches and freight trucks, said the impact of Brexit on cross-Channel transport was uncertain, but it added that it did not expect any significant impact on its activities in the short term.
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Professional shots from a studio in 1950s China, when vehicle production was just beginning there, show that the lack of passenger cars on the road did not hamper people's eagerness to be photographed in one, even if the vehicle was fake.
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Registrations of new passenger cars in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association rose to 1.496 million vehicles in September, a seasonally strong month, from 1.395 million a year earlier, the Brussels-based Association of European Carmakers (ACEA) said.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board said Tuesday they had approved an emissions fix for 24,753 Audi 3.0-liter passenger cars as Volkswagen AG looks to move beyond its diesel emissions crisis.
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Last year, BMW retained the title of largest premium auto maker posting sales of 1.91 million BMW branded passenger cars while Mercedes sales sold 1.87 million cars, compared with a 3.6 percent jump to 1.80 luxury vehicles sold by Audi.
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The magazine cited a letter to dealers from Thomas Zahn, head of sales and marketing for passenger cars, that admitted VW had not won back trust as quickly as expected, describing delays to refit affected VW Passat cars as "disappointing".
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DETROIT, Nov 1.33 (Reuters) - Major automakers posted mixed U.S. new vehicle sales in October on Wednesday, though America's love affair with high-margin pickup trucks and SUVs was unrelenting as passenger cars continued to be abandoned for larger, more comfortable vehicles.
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Japan's Toyo Tire & Rubber Co said it would raise domestic tyre prices for passenger cars, trucks and buses by at least 5.5 percent to 10 percent to pass on higher natural rubber prices in a move that would follow domestic rivals.
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The forecast follows weak U.S. auto sales here for March and the first quarter, as American customers continued to abandon buying passenger cars in favor of larger, more comfortable pickup trucks and SUVs, which are far more profitable for automakers.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is considering cutting the import duty on passenger cars by about half as part of the country's plan to further open up the automobile market, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former California Governor Jerry Brown slammed General Motors Co on Tuesday for siding with the Trump administration in its bid to bar California from setting its own fuel efficiency and tailpipe emission rules for passenger cars and trucks.
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The institute gauged the "relative claim frequency" of "whole vehicle theft" for models of passenger cars, pickups, SUVs, and vans for model years 2016 to 2018 to compile this list of the 20 most stolen cars in the United States.
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New production lines will be added to a Dongfeng plant in Changzhou in Jiangsu province, which will increase capacity by about 120,000 passenger cars a year, a spokesman from Nissan told Reuters in response to questions about the Nikkei's story.
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Under that compromise, made official in 2013, mileage standards for passenger cars and light trucks rose slowly through 2017, and would rise more sharply over the next several years, reaching an average of nearly 55 miles per gallon by 2025.
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In New York, a state task force has proposed a flat rate of $11.52 per day for passenger cars — and $25.34 for trucks — for entering a congestion zone in Manhattan that would stretch from 60th Street south to the Battery.
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Traditional SUVs are built on a pickup truck platform, while crossovers use a unibody construction like those in passenger cars, so they drive more like a car than a truck, handle better, and tend to have limited off-road capabilities.
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The company has initially halted production until April 3, but Juergen Stackmann, management board member for the VW passenger cars brand, gave an upbeat assessment to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, saying that the Chinese market has already started to pick up.
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Automakers have argued that the current goals — which the E.P.A. said translate to an average fuel-economy sticker of 36 miles per gallon — were too stringent given the market shift away from passenger cars toward trucks and sport utility vehicles.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former California Governor Jerry Brown slammed General Motors Co on Tuesday for siding with the Trump administration in its bid to bar California from setting its own fuel efficiency and tailpipe emission rules for passenger cars and trucks.
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Taxis, trucks, buses, and other vehicles have borne ads for decades, but the proliferation of gig economy workers driving for companies like Grubhub, Lyft, and Uber has turned millions of passenger cars into commercial vehicles—and potential mobile advertising platforms.
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FRANKFURT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Daimler said it sold 2.34 million Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in 2019, the ninth consecutive year of record sales, putting the German carmaker in pole position for retaining the title of biggest-selling premium car brand.
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Here is a rundown of how they have performed: MERCEDES-BENZ Mercedes-Benz sold 21.3 million passenger cars in 2019, the brand's ninth consecutive year of record sales, retaining the title of biggest-selling premium car brand ahead of BMW.
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Ford said sales of its pick-up trucks rose 2302% to 240,387, its best third-quarter performance in 14 years, even as overall sales fell 4.9% to 580,251 automobiles, hurt by lower demand for its passenger cars including the Taurus sedan.
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LMC said a slowdown in sales was also noticeable based on the seasonally adjusted annual selling rate (SAAR), which fell to 13.4 million cars in July, compared with a 13.9 million annual selling rate for passenger cars seen last month.
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The 64-year-old responded by saying that electric vehicles would still fall behind gasoline cars when it comes to range, but added passenger cars are "one of the most hopeful" factors in bringing down the cost of environmentally friendly alternatives.
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