This study attempts to assess the composition of the U.S. vehicle stock based on existing data sources and educated speculation. The findings include:
- Of the total number of registered vehicles, residential vehicles accounted for 83% :
- Passenger Cars accounted for 72%
- Pickups accounted for 17%
- Sport-Utility accounted for 5%
- Large Vans accounted for 3%
- Minivans accounted for 3%
- Of the total number of registered vehicles, nonresidential vehicles accounted for 17% :
- Business fleets operated 49-55%
- State, county, and municipal government operated 10%
- Federal government operated 2%
- Of the 30.2 million nonresidential vehicles, around 45 to 51% cannot be accounted for by any existing data source.
(Note: Data will sum to more than 100 percent because there are government vehicles included in the "Business fleets" and "Unaccounted for" categories which cannot be separated out.)
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