A couple of entries down from here you'll find a note about the car market. The linked article from CNBC mentioned that it's very hard to find a US-made 4-door sedan because manufacturers are now producing lots of crossovers and trucks.
There's a reason for that, and it came out Friday night.
...The CAFE standards have now become a tool wielded by the Biden administration to club Americans into submission to electric vehicles. We want nothing more than to be left alone, but they want to run our lives. Count the ways.
It’s a long list that includes the displacement of cars powered by internal combustion engines by electric vehicles. We love the former and reject the latter. Thus the latest edition of NHTSA’s CAFE standards, announced yesterday....
According to the NYSlimes, quoted in the PowerLine link:
...The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger cars would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per gallon, up from 35.1 miles per gallon....
A 65++ MPG passenger car? Not too likely, so the manufacturers are dropping "cars" and moving into "SUV"s--crossovers, and trucks.
Nissan Versa gets 40 mpg on hwy
ReplyDeleteNissan dropped their truck line….
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Datsun odd decision. Must have a yen for something else.
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