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Since 2009, the United States is home to the second largest passenger vehicle market of any country in the world, second to China. [1] Overall, there were an estimated 263.6 million registered vehicles in the United States in 2015, most of which were passenger vehicles. [2] This number, along with the average age of vehicles, has increased ...
Hybrid electric vehicle. The Toyota Prius is the world's best-selling hybrid car, with cumulative global sales of 5 million units up until September 2022 [1] A New Flyer XDE60 Xcelsior articulated hybrid-electric bus operated by MBTA. A hybrid electric vehicle ( HEV) is a type of hybrid vehicle that combines a conventional internal combustion ...
Lunar Roving Vehicle. The Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program ( 15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the term "dune buggy".
Maximum speed. 65–70 km/h. The Lynx is a German armoured fighting vehicle developed by Rheinmetall Landsysteme (part of Rheinmetall's Vehicle Systems division). The Lynx, configured as a KF31 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), was unveiled at the Eurosatory defence exhibition on 14 June 2016. [1] The KF41 variant was unveiled at the Eurosatory ...
A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) or simply plug-in hybrid is a type of hybrid electric vehicle equipped with a rechargeable battery pack that can be directly replenished via a charging cable plugged into an external electric power source, in addition to charging internally by its on-board internal combustion engine-powered generator.
Crossover (automobile) A crossover, crossover SUV, or crossover utility vehicle ( CUV) is a type of automobile with an increased ride height that is built on unibody chassis construction shared with passenger cars, as opposed to traditional sport utility vehicles (SUV), which are built on a body-on-frame chassis construction similar to pickup ...
Maximum speed. Max 80 km/h on tar road. The Leopard Security Vehicle is an unusual land-mine protected APC used by the Rhodesian government and civilian population during the 1964–1979 Rhodesian Bush War. It offered basic but necessary protection against mine attack through the use of a V-hull .
