Transport equipment, and more specifically, passenger cars and trucks, led the recovery, with production up 36% on a month-over-month basis.
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Growth was pretty evenly split up among vehicle types, with passenger cars and trucks sales up 18% each and crossover sales up 17%.
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The new rules will require automakers to roll out passenger cars and trucks that will reduce smog-producing pollutants such as nitrogen oxides by 75 percent less from the 2014 levels.
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By continuing the national program developed for model year 2012-2016 vehicles, EPA and DOT have designed a proposal that allows manufacturers to keep producing a single, national fleet of passenger cars and light trucks that satisfies all federal and California requirements, while ensuring that consumers enjoy a full range of vehicle choices.
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Several companies have already started field-testing battery-electric passenger cars and light trucks for use in their fleets.
The rising use of aluminum in passenger cars and light trucks comes because of rising fuel-efficiency standards in the U.S., he said.
Year to date, sales of passenger cars and light trucks are up 10.4 percent from a year earlier, according to market research firm Autodata Corp.
It is also investing in diesel use for passenger cars and light trucks, which the company expects will make up 25% of the U.S. market in eight to ten years.
Last November, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation proposed a new set of rules that will require passenger cars and light trucks to achieve a combined average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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Part of that growth, to be sure, was due to overall growth in demand, but a big part of it I suspect is due to the switch from less fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly unconventional vehicles, to more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly passenger cars, trucks and buses.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) have formally announced their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for model year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light-duty trucks.
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General Motors Company is engaged in the designing, manufacturing and retailing of vehicles globally including passenger cars, crossover vehicles, and light trucks, sport utility vehicles, vans and other vehicles.
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Chrysler Group is offering the Hemi as an option for power-hungry drivers who want more oomph in their trucks and passenger cars.
Of the 13.6 million vehicles produced and sold in China in 2009, 8.4 million were passenger cars, but 5.3 million were trucks and buses.
The largest of the Detroit automakers released its August sales number, with an 18% increase over August 2010 as the bailed-out company takes advantage of continued demand for passenger cars, SUVs, and crossovers, and trucks.
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Over the next five to six years, India plans to spend up to 138.50 billion rupees to boost the market for electric cars and plans to have about 5.0 million to 6.0 million of such vehicles--which includes two-wheelers, three-wheelers and small trucks apart from passenger cars--on the road.
The wait was five hours for trucks and 90 minutes for passenger cars at the Bluewater Bridge, which links Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan, according to Canada Customs spokesman Danny Yen.
More worrisome, perhaps, says Michael Robinet, vice president of vehicle forecasting for csm Worldwide, is that Opel has expertise GM needs as the industry shifts away from large trucks and suvs toward more fuel-efficient passenger cars.
Now, during the first four months of this year, the Chinese bought 2.5 million trucks and buses, compared to 3.7 million passenger cars.
North America is developing the big pick-up trucks that dominate the local market and Europe will handle mainstream passenger cars.
The technology is proven and widely available in engine sizes to power everything from passenger cars to mine-haul trucks.
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Ford is also looking to move all of its passenger cars into higher-priced territory to offset lost profits from weak sales of expensive trucks and SUVs.
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