The oil, reducing of cars in the United States
By Denis Delbecq • July 2nd, 2008 in 9:43 · Category: Actuality
Nothing goes more to the kingdom of the car. Sales of cars dived in June in the United States. Fall attains 18 % in comparison with the same period of 2007. It is especially the big cars and Suv (sports and utilities) that does not make recipes anymore. The number of registrations attained in June its lowest level for fifteen years, while the barrel of oil becomes established above 140 dollars. In 2007, its medium course was 72 dollars.
With an uncertain financial status, and especially a spectacular increase in the price of the petrol, the Americans abandon more and more often the purchase of the cars of sports, and other pickups. They rush for cars with a small engine, notably Japanese, which the industrialists upset to give. Honda saw the sales augmenting by 1 %. Toyota does not manage to answer request for the toy cars and the hybrid Prius, while his pickup star sees his sales going down by 31 %.
For their part, the American constructors collapse, for lack of having models not very fond of good food. Ford sees his sales going down by 28 %, Chrysler of 36 % and General Motors of 18 %, after May in fall of 27,5 %. But this last owes the "greeting" and the maintaining of the leader's position only to a massive operation of reduction of stocks with discount and loans to zero rate. The giant spends a thousand million dollars a month, taken on his reservations, to adapt its production to request and to perfect vehicles less fond of good food Four plants, devoted to powerful cars, will be closed this year
For eighteen months, the price of the petrol burnt in the United States. In France, the existence of a fixed tax, TIPP, plays the role of amortisseur of increase, who is added to the advantageous effects of the exchange rate of the euro in relation to the dollar. The American consumers suffer very hard the totality of the increase in the barrel. The American gallon (3,78 litres) of great is worth 4,5 dollars today (that is 1,20 dollar the litre), up 30 % over six months.
At the same time, sales of two wheels develop. According to the association of the constructors, sales of motorbikes and scooter believed 24 % in the United States since the beginning of the year and Vespa saw the sales in May climbing 105 % But it is always sold fifteen times less two-wheeled vehicles than cars.
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Salim of Algiers, Algeria.
Very happily, this moves in the field of electricity or of hybrid for cars and 2 or 3 wheels a lot! So much the better short the bowl of all this pollution!
I ran in Harley because these models of motorbike have a fabulous "sound"! But I sold it! It is necessary to pass to something else: and this something else will be in electrical or hybrid propulsion. Renault crossed agreements with Israel (between other one) to set electrical vehicles up there. And to us then?? I I WANT to run clean (and less a lot at the same time). What stops me at the moment, it is autonomy. PRIUS does not consume really less than Toyota Aigo!! That's true that this last is smaller, but frankly I do not see the intéret (if it is not necessary) to have a "big" hybrid car which consumes as much as a "normal": fashion can be??
It is necessary to know that in France the building to MDI industry (in midday of France) of a Hybrid car (air-comprimé / thermal begins which will be sold unless 10.000 euro: http://www.mdi.lu/fra/affiche_fra.php?page=accueil - I am ready to place order to run clean!! It is possible to make reservations on the site. Three cheers for future