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SUVs Ascendant: Growth in SUV Use Could More than Offset Carbon Savings from Electric Vehicles: Numbers Don't Lie

2021; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 58; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mspec.2021.9531030

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Vaclav Smil,

Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

The sport utility vehicle has become an acronym, but the SUV category's name is questionable. What does sport have to do with shopping in Walmart or waiting in a traffic jam? As for the utility, is my Honda Civic not of use, capable of performing several different functions? And the category itself is splitting up, like an amoeba, into two major sub-categories, car SUVs and truck SUVs. Each contains still-finer divisions, ranging from mini (Nissan Kicks) to extended length (Lincoln Navigator).