Posted on 01/10/2020 6:16:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
FRANKFURT - Soaring demand for SUVs drove record sales for premium carmakers including BMW and Mercedes last year, leaving the industry on collision course with government efforts to tackle global warming despite big investments in electric vehicles.
BMW said on Friday deliveries by its main luxury brand rose 2% to a record 2,168,516 vehicles last year, thanks to a 21% jump in sales of its “X” branded sport-utility vehicles (SUV) which now make up 44% of the BMW brand’s global sales.
At Mercedes-Benz, the world’s best selling premium car brand, every third luxury car sold last year was an SUV.
Automakers across the world are investing billions in electric vehicles to try to meet tougher emissions regulations. But the jury is out on how many drivers will buy them.
“Consumer preferences for SUVs could offset the benefits from electric cars,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned in its November World Energy Outlook 2019 report.
SUVs were the second-largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions since 2010 after the power sector - ahead of heavy industry including iron and steel, cement, aluminum, as well as trucks and aviation, it said.
There are now more than 200 million SUVs around the world, up from about 35 million in 2010, accounting for 60% of the increase in the global car fleet since 2010, IEA data shows.
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Mazda CX-3?
“to “refuel” in 10 minutes or less”
The only way to refuel an electric car in less than 10 minutes is for the ‘filling station’ to replace the battery.
It would be a mechanism underneath the car that the car would drive onto and it would quickly remove the old battery and replace it with a recharged one.
I’m partial to standard cars—never owned an SUV. Like another poster wrote, when I can travel 400+ miles between charges and I can recharge in 10 minutes or less I will consider an alternative power supply.
“Mazda CX-3?”
Yes!
“Until then, I will continue to do the one thing that can happen on this planet, that as far as we know cannot happen on any other planet we have discovered to date... and that’s enjoy the energy created by combustion.”
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For the future, expect progressive authorities to set baseline (ie distance) limits for “approved” (ie not requiring additional permissions) travel. Desires to exceed default limits will require applying to authorities for approval.
I know liberals who sit in their homes and watch cars going up and down “their” roads, and get ticked off that they are having to pay for the upkeep of roads for the benefit of people who are allowed unlimited use of those roads. In other words, they believe there is no “need” for all those cars to keep going up and down the roads. And, they would vote for a government that would set controls for how many miles per week a car is allowed to be driven.
With GPS, and the power of today’s computers (including onboard computers), it wouldn’t be all that hard to make such a concept workable.
Leftist propaganda in title. It is people who choose SUV’s. The manufacturers simply fulfill demand.
QUICK, CALL THE REEDUCATION CAMP and have them send the gas van to my door. Every week day I take my Lincoln Navigator, two big dogs, one a Great Dane and the other an American Bull Dog, American Staffordshire Terrier, GSD and Lab cross (AKA a “Pit Bull”), with loaded S&W .357 Magnum in the console, and drive seven miles to the local Chick-Fil-A for brunch. Then the dogs and I go for an 18 mile ride before returning home to our two acre exurban place. I’m also a Total Trumpster who’s never voted for a DemonShit in his entire 77 year life.
Good for the SUV builders and, especially, the buyers of the “giant luxury SUVs.”
How close do you get to the 29/34 mpg rating Mazda advertises? I have a Kia Sportage and bought it mainly for its advertised 28/32 mpg, but combined I get in the 26 range and I do hypermiling to even get that. At least Kia offered a cashback scheme since they were caught fudging the numbers. Every couple of years I’ll go to the dealer and they’ll check the mileage and calculated the gas prices over that span of time and issue out a cash card.
Yep, but a lot of politicians don't want them to be able to vote at all unless they're a member of "the party".
We haven’t done a long trip. But, around town in Houston freeways and surface streets combined it is showing 26.8 on the least expensive gas my wife can find. But we don’t drive a whole lot.
A couple of summers ago I saw a brand new Corvette pulled over in a 25 MPH zone in my smallish community.
The driver was a gray-haired old man...
He must have ‘gotten on it’ at the wrong place/time I’m sure he doubled the speed limit..
Heck, if it took ten minutes to fill a gas tank, most people would find that unacceptable.
My 2018 Wrangler JLUS gets the same real-world mpg as the EPA test claim for the Corvette. That commute is up and down hills all-the-way for 22 mpg.
An eight speed automatic and a 272 Hp turbocharged I-4 work well together to propel a box on wheels. Cruising level road at 65 mph, with the allowed 87 octane, nets 24 mpg for extended trips.
Zero to 60 is under seven seconds with traction control defeated and 4wd H engaged per testing. This is for the mild hybrid system which adds 70 lb ft torque below 1500 engine rpm.
Running the optimum 91 octane at a higher speed, higher wind loading, or with peak summer temperatures gains even more miles. Some even have claimed 27 mpg, which I have not experienced.
>> He must have ‘gotten on it’ at the wrong place/time I’m sure he doubled the speed limit.
Oh wow. 50 in a 400+ hp machine!
The government doesn’t understand that in a free economy, people have choices. Some of us have and SUV in the garage despite fuel economy.
Shamefully, the Feds have destroyed America’s “big iron” legacy.
so what’s your ride?
There was talk about that exact strategy a couple of years ago. There was also talk of recharging cars as they were driving via electromagnetic coils embedded in the pavement.
Still waiting.
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