SUVs

Half of all new cars are now SUVs, and even though approximately 20 per cent of them are hybrid or electric vehicles, rising emissions from the vehicles have been cited for causing as much as a fifth of the increase in global carbon dioxide emissions.

New parking tariffs could come into force at the start of September. The cost of on-street parking for an SUV or 4x4 vehicle would rise to €18 an hour in the centre of Paris and €12 an hour in the rest of the city.

The continued global rise in sales of SUVs pushed their climate-heating emissions to almost one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency.

Cities are loosening rules on building parking spots with new buildings: ‘It’s about the climate, it’s about walkability.’

One-fifth of all passenger cars, SUVs and trucks sold in Canada in 2026 will need to run on electricity under new regulations Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is proposing.

Group says the "climate disaster" vehicles were disarmed recently in nine countries — including the U.K., France and Canada.

U.K. activists fighting climate heating and pollution say public response more welcoming than expected.

When future historians go looking for the moment when the electric vehicle revolution truly got underway, they might end up pinpointing last Sunday’s Super Bowl, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Researchers say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars have been saved in the United States by recent reductions in emissions from vehicles.

Just like promotion for tobacco products, another health threat, we must curtail the advertising practices of the automotive industry, writes Équiterre's Andréanne Brazeau.

BloombergNEF forecasts cheaper electric vehicles on the horizon thanks to the falling cost of making batteries as well as dedicated production lines.

A new report reveals the startling impact of America's favourite car.

President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States' biggest efforts against climate change.

The federal government has started to give away money to encourage people to buy electric cars, but before long it will have to decide how far it will go to force the market towards lower-emission vehicles.

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency increased safety and environmental standards for cars in the 1970s, automakers responded.