passenger car

noun

US
: a railroad car that carries passengers

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More than half of new passenger car sales in China are electrified, and electrification of heavy trucks is accelerating now as well, creating a drag on diesel demand. Andrew Winston, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2025 Zoox also issued two voluntary software recalls in May after its robotaxi collided with an e-scooter rider in San Francisco and one of its vehicles was involved in a crash with a passenger car in Las Vegas. Lora Kolodny,jennifer Elias,annie Palmer, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025 Three people were in the passenger car that was fired at, troopers aid. Paula Wethington, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025 Similarly, in 2015, EVs made up less than 1 percent of passenger car sales. Climate Change, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for passenger car

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“Passenger car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passenger%20car. Accessed 3 Jan. 2026.

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