cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60133446
Under the proposed changes published on Tuesday, the EU would base compliance with the CO2 rules for 2025 on a carmaker’s average emissions over the period 2025-2027, rather than just this year.
The Czech Republic, a hub for car manufacturing, has previously said it would push for a five-year compliance period.
Volkswagen and Renault are among those that have expressed support for extending the compliance period
No.
Manufacters have had decades to get on top of this and they wasted their time.
In no way, shape or form should the deadline be extended.
It shouldn’t be, but German Auto makers are extremely slow to evolve due to their ridiculous bureaucracy. They’ve had ages to get on top of it and ignored it and they should pay the price for that, but they’re too big to fail for their countries economies. They’re definitely beginning to waver in the face of competition from china, so this comes across as the EU giving them a final respite to really start competing. Then again, could just exacerbate their complacency, we’ll have to see whichever way it goes.
This whole “too big to fail” schtick really needs to go the way of the dodo. I understand the implications in terms of jobs and whatnot, but the fact that some of these firms have gotten so big that they’ll fracture economies is flat out irresponsible.