.AMERICANS like to super-size– and also certainly not only their junk food. They favour huge sport-utility motor vehicles (Sport utility vehicles) as well as pickup trucks over small cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, accounting for over half of all sales of new automobiles, according to JATO Aspect, a study company.
Although European vehicles are actually likewise growing, United States ones still possess a pleasant top: in 2022 the average car sold in America weighed 1,857 kg, virtually twenty% more than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways and significant garage serve this preference for sizable experiences– and so performs the law. But a way out that for nearly 50 years has incentivised sales of big automobiles will soon be tightened up.
Will that lead Americans to get much smaller vehicles?