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If you have the time (35 min), this video does a great job of explaining the distinction.
https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo
If you have even more time, I recommending looking into Strong Towns, of which the same creator summarized in this series of videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa
This channel opened my eyes to the extremely terrible world of car dependency that we live in. I will warn you that once you know this, you will never see the world the same way again, but it's extremely important that we know about this problems so that we can push our governments to fix them.
The key word here is "unnecessary" but in fact the circumstances make us use SUVs because of bad weather, bad roads (and even absence if roads), a lot of stuff to transfer (from furniture and fridges to bikes). For traveling SUVs and minivans are perfect. If I lived in a center of a city and/or I didn't have to go to a countryside and I didn't have relatives or friends (or I hated them) I'd considered buying a micro car! But in any other circumstances it would be a hatchback, SUV, minivan or even fully-fledged offroad truck. Considering what people around me are driving it's mostly SUVs because it is an optimal car type. Even some carsharing cars and taxis are SUVs. That is why I'm surprised by these news about rising parking prices.