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Why do you find it suspicious? Not only have the Americans not been able to do it, but neither have the Japanese, the Koreans, the Germans, the Italians, the Fr
by taylodl 3y ago
Why do you find it suspicious? Not only have the Americans not been able to do it, but neither have the Japanese, the Koreans, the Germans, the Italians, the French, the British, or the Chinese. Since whomever was able to do it would be able to disrupt the market and gain more sales, I'm thinking it can't be done.
If we want to play the game of mandating things that can't be done then why don't we demand EVs be 6% to 8% more efficient while we're at it?
- JeremyNT 3y ago> Why do you find it suspicious? Not only have the Americans not been able to do it, but neither have the Japanese, the Koreans, the Germans, the Italians, the French, the British, or the Chinese. Since whomever was able to do it would be able to disrupt the market and gain more sales, I'm thinking it can't be done. Any auto maker could quite easily improve the efficiency of their fleets by reducing the size of their passenger vehicles (especially large SUVs and pickup trucks). It's not a tech question. No R&D involved. They just need to market their smaller vehicles as cool and stop marketing their large vehicles so aggressively. The reason they want to avoid this is that they currently make better margins on larger vehicles, so they just push the environmental costs of such inefficiency out to the rest of the public and call it a day. In a sane regulatory framework those large vehicles would be taxed dramatically more due to the damage they cause to the environment, and the auto makers wouldn't be so addicted to them.
- gotoeleven 3y agoBut people would have to buy them for this plan to work. And people won't because they will suck.
- yowzadave 3y agoWhat are they going to do, not drive?
- m463 3y ago> demand EVs be 6% to 8% "keep your speed under 25 mph to reach your destination"