Sentences with phrase «total car fleets»

Late last year, the mainland proposed automakers should make new energy vehicles account for 8 percent of total car fleets by 2018 despite booming demand for SUVs — first - quarter SUV sales rose 21 percent on - year to 2.4 million, according to data from the Associated Press.

But anyway, please see my reply above to rjmahan — I think debating the speed & scale of EV up - take is a red herring for a long time to come in terms of total car fleet on the road.

But even at that point, EVs will still be a relatively small % of the TOTAL car fleet on the road, and that will only change slowly as the average (petrol / diesel) car generally remains on the road for 15 - 20 years.

Not exact matches

One is that replacing utility power is one thing, but [a] lot of the total energy in the country goes in transportation, so another big assumption is that you'd largely have to convert the U.S. passenger fleet to hybrid plug - in cars and trucks, all that, so that essentially you are fueling vehicles with electricity as well.

The subsidized leasing and zero - interest financing, combined with a hefty shot of fleet sales, juiced the market, driving new - car sales up 24 % over the dismal March 2009 total.

In keeping with the new car's status in the fleet, it's grown 4 inches in total length, three of which are in the wheelbase and two of which go directly to rear legroom.

Popular with company car and fleet drivers alike, the Business Edition variants currently account for 29 % of total S60 / V60 sales, while almost half of Volvo's end - user business sales for the S60 and V60 were for the Business Edition in 2016, proving just how popular this specification already is.

The city council looked at their emissions as a result of fuel for their fleet of cars and trucks and running City of Sydney events (9 % of total), energy emissions from the likes of street lighting and City owned properties (72 %) and then all other emissions such as those caused by the City's operations, including contractors and business travel - taxis, flights, etc (19 %) For the financial year of 06 - 7 this gave them a total of over 48,500 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.