| **Allowance for Doubtful Accounts - Schedule of Impaired Finance Receivables (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions** | 9 Months Ended |        |
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| Retail Portfolio [Member]                                                                                        |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Impaired Financing Receivable, Average Recorded Investment                                                       | $ 18           | $ 21   |   |
| Impaired finance receivables with specific loss reserves [Member]                                                |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Impaired Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment                                                               | 18             |   | $ 21 |
| Impaired finance receivables with specific loss reserves [Member] | Retail Portfolio [Member]                    |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Impaired Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment                                                               | 18             |   | 21 |
| Impaired finance receivables with specific loss reserves [Member] | Wholesale Portfolio [Member]                 |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Impaired Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment                                                               | 0              |   | 0 |
| Impaired financing receivable without specific loss reserves [Member]                                            |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Impaired Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment                                                               | 0              |   | 0 |
| Impaired financing receivable without specific loss reserves [Member] | Retail Portfolio [Member]                |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Impaired Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment                                                               | 0              |   | 0 |
| Impaired financing receivable without specific loss reserves [Member] | Wholesale Portfolio [Member]             |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Impaired Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment                                                               | 0              |   | 0 |
| Specific loss reserves on impaired finance receivables [Member]                                                  |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Specific loss reserves on impaired finance receivables                                                           | 9              |   | 9 |
| Specific loss reserves on impaired finance receivables [Member] | Retail Portfolio [Member]                      |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Specific loss reserves on impaired finance receivables                                                           | 9              |   | 9 |
| Specific loss reserves on impaired finance receivables [Member] | Wholesale Portfolio [Member]                   |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Specific loss reserves on impaired finance receivables                                                           | 0              |   | 0 |
| Finance receivable non-accrual status [Member]                                                                   |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Finance receivables on non-accrual status                                                                        | 18             |   | 21 |
| Finance receivable non-accrual status [Member] | Retail Portfolio [Member]                                       |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Finance receivables on non-accrual status                                                                        | 18             |   | 21 |
| Finance receivable non-accrual status [Member] | Wholesale Portfolio [Member]                                    |           |   |   |
| **Finance Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]**                                                                    |           |   |   |
| Finance receivables on non-accrual status                                                                        | $ 0            |   | $ 0 |

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| - Definition
Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.
+ References
No definition available.
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| - Definition
Recorded investment in financing receivables that are on nonaccrual status as of the balance sheet date.
+ References
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| - Definition
Average amount of investment of impaired financing receivables with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses.
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| - Definition
Amount of investment of impaired financing receivables with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses.
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| - Definition
Amount of allowance for credit losses related to recorded investment.
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