SUV Sales Crippling Environment

SUVs and pickups have been the backbone of the auto sales industry for well over a decade. Jeep, Explorer, and Bronco are among the best-selling vehicles of their parent companies. They tend to get poor gas mileage, but it has not mattered, with gas prices running below $3 for much of the last decade.

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The IEA has released a new report on SUVs, which have become extremely popular recently. It is titled “SUVs are setting new sales records each year—and so are their emissions.” The report indicates that SUVs accounted for almost 50% of all passenger vehicle sales worldwide last year. To highlight the environmental issues, the report said, “If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO2.” Among the top 10 nations in terms of SUV-based emissions, China was the highest by far, followed by the US and India. Based on population, the US is about a quarter the size of the other two. About 360 million SUVs were in use in 2023, which grew by 60 million last year.

Climatecrisis247 believes that SUV popularity is a significant hurdle to EV sales. Almost all are gas-powered, and there is no drop in their massive numbers and sales growth. Some new SUVs are electric, and that may mitigate the problem,

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