In a bold move echoing Tesla’s recent decision, Polestar, the renowned Swedish electric vehicle manufacturer, has announced its departure from a prominent auto industry lobby. This withdrawal reflects growing discontent with the lobby’s opposition to a crucial proposed vehicle efficiency standard, seen as pivotal for environmental progress.
The proposed standard aims to elevate vehicle efficiency benchmarks, crucial for reducing carbon emissions and combating climate change. However, the lobby’s vigorous campaign against it has drawn criticism from eco-conscious automakers like Polestar and Tesla, who view such regulations as imperative for sustainable development.
If I get down voted for this commenting against the grain, so be it, but here goes:
I believe that the reason the car companies oppose this is the speed at which it’s being pushed. Not that the regulations need to happen.
My understanding is that it takes a car company 3+ years to design / engineer a vehicle to meet the market standards and regulations. It’s not an overnight process. So the car companies want this to be delayed to give them time to be in market with vehicles that comply with the new regulations.
If only we knew higher efficiency improvement standards have been enacted almost consistently since 1975!
Yeah you’re right, but that’s 100% on them. They knew it was coming and they chose to not make any significant changes. Now they die. That’s just evolution.
Every other country already has similar standards, though. So they don’t need to design anything new, they can just actually start selling those cars in Australia instead of their obsolete junk that can’t be sold anywhere else.