passenger car
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It said that 52 percent of its passenger car sales in Europe are now electrified vehicles -- fully electric, plug-in hybrids and non-plug-in hybrids -- up from 43.8 percent in the first half of 2025.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
“I would like to propose a small addition,” he wrote, “in all passenger car and truck lines.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
It will be the firm's first passenger car factory in Europe and is expected to create thousands of jobs.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2024
Metrolink has removed the bullet-damaged passenger car from service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
As Ophie and her mother traveled from Atlanta to Washington, DC, on the Birmingham Special, Pennsy enfolding the wounded pair in the embrace of her passenger car seats, the dead took notice.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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