In addition, the standard we set last year for cars and light trucks runs through 2016.
Chrysler is the most reliant of the three on vehicles classified as light trucks.
In America, diesels account for less than 3% of cars and light trucks on the road.
General Motors sold the most number of cars and light trucks, 2.5 million for the year.
This is going to be probably the third-best year ever in sales of cars and light trucks.
The proposal divides light trucks into six categories, each with its own standard depending on their size.
Several companies have already started field-testing battery-electric passenger cars and light trucks for use in their fleets.
The plunge in sales of light trucks in the U.S. stung all three automakers, especially Ford and Chrysler.
Today, the Bush administration proposed raising the minimum fuel economy standards for sport utility vehicles and light trucks.
Also seeing gains for trucks, Chau holds Qingling Motors, which manufactures light trucks in western China with Isuzu Motor.
Light trucks dominate some areas while sporty imports ar more common in others.
Think of it: five years ago, there were barely cars at Chrysler, where three-quarters of its sales were light trucks.
Let's say you work in the U.S. auto industry, which for years has banked on large, fuel-hungry SUVs and light trucks.
He fired 30, 000 people, launched the successful Peugeot 205 minicar and signed production deals with Renault (industrial vehicles) and Fiat (light trucks).
The proposed regulations would portion "light trucks" into six categories based on the square footage of the vehicle, or its so-called footprint.
The rising use of aluminum in passenger cars and light trucks comes because of rising fuel-efficiency standards in the U.S., he said.
Manufacturing activity continued to expand in the latest period, with sales of new cars and light trucks substantially higher, read the report.
The growth sector for the last quarter century has been light trucks, a category in which fuel efficiency has deteriorated over time.
The federal government is ready to go to war against sport utility vehicles (SUVs), which fall under the category of light trucks and vans (LTVs).
Light trucks have been another story: The domestics have flourished, keeping their pickup truck, minivan and SUV plants running at 86% of capacity.
Approximately 80% of the commercial vehicles sold were mini and light trucks and buses, ideal replacements for agricultural vehicles and those ever-present inkfish.
And those gas guzzling light trucks and SUVs, consumers are turning away from those, and as a result the U.S. auto industry is suffering.
Chrysler is everything that General Motors is trying not to be--overly reliant on light trucks and beset with overcapacity and losses in North America.
On the list: an ambitious plan to increase ethanol and biofuel production, and a distinction between fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks.
From 2006 to 2010 the average fuel economy of new cars and light trucks rose from 25.8 miles per gallon of petrol to 29.2.
And breaking that down a little further, cars and light trucks are the largest users of petroleum, given the reliance on foreign supply of oil.
Folz has maintained the joint ventures formed by his predecessor with Fiat in light trucks and with Renault in engines, gear boxes and industrial vehicles.
And over the next five years, we expect fuel efficiency standards in cars and light trucks to reach an average of 35.5 miles per gallon.
The current CAFE of 27.5 mpg for cars and 21.6 mpg for light trucks is set to rise to a combined 35 mpg by 2020.
Year to date, sales of passenger cars and light trucks are up 10.4 percent from a year earlier, according to market research firm Autodata Corp.
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