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Is that a bad thing? Afaik, the CAFE standards are applied over the total cars sold, not just having the car in your lineup - GM can sell lots of big Silverado
by notatoad 10y ago
Is that a bad thing? Afaik, the CAFE standards are applied over the total cars sold, not just having the car in your lineup - GM can sell lots of big Silverados if they sell lots of Bolts, but they can't just make a little electric car to make the regulators happy and not care if they sell any of them, because they'll get no benefit out of it.
- Neliquat 10y agoThat leads to selling a crap e-car at a loss to push your profitable lines. A race to the lowest common denominator is not what we need.
- WorldMaker 10y agoIsn't that exactly what we need? Electric cars are selling just fine in the somewhat luxury new car space, but the majority of people that I know only ever buy used cars or lease very modest sedans. To get electric cars in the hands of those drivers, electric cars need to be cheap and "lowest common denominator" and there needs to be a flood of them sold new or leased new to enter the secondary markets effectively.
- notatoad 10y agoThat only works if theyre selling at less of a loss than the CAFE credits cost. Which really wouldn't be that much of a loss, so not that good of a deal. It would still have to be a decent car to sell. (This isn't a hypothetical, btw. You don't have to guess what will happen, the system has been in place for many years)