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Vox has a paywall, but my quick search showed only a deduction for vehicles for business use.
The short version is that CAFE standards classified vehicles by footprint (track width times wheelbase), allowing larger light trucks and SUVs to meet looser fuel economy targets than smaller passenger cars, incentivizing automakers to upsell bigger models for higher profits and easier compliance.
If you want to read the original article one of these should do it for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20240428101847/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution https://archive.is/LJuSN