Audi essentially owns the conversation around vehicle lighting.
The theoretical effect would be to pressure manufacturers to make their heaviest vehicles lighter and their lightest vehicles heavier.
Dr. Lund also said that regulations that encouraged automakers to make vehicles lighter had safety drawbacks.
John Tierney suggests that the 1978 fuel-economy standards made vehicles lighter and thus less safe.
It dominated the red-hot market for sport utility vehicles, light trucks and minivans.
The dual-function materials could make E.V.'s and hybrid vehicles lighter as they simultaneously provide extra electricity.
The fedayeen are equipped with sports utility vehicles, light trucks, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
That means sport utility vehicles, light trucks, motorcycles and even motor homes qualify, according to CCH, a tax information service.
So the Army wanted to create a middle option — special brigades with combat vehicles light enough to airlift.
The bill already includes a measure for modestly increasing the mandated efficiency of light trucks, including sport utility vehicles, light trucks and minivans.
