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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Not quite each segment, but Guilbeault is suggesting industry wide targets will be legislated. IE. Penalties for any OEM, under the sales target requirement in a given year. Industry wants some consumer support too though. Otherwise, total sales fall. Hence the subsidies.
There's also the EU method of strict fleet wide fuel economy standards measured in gCO2/km:
Personally, I like the European approach. It lets carmakers tailor strategy to strengths. They can electrify higher polluting models. Or they can turn every model into a hybrid to cut emissions. Toyota, for example, can meet requirements, by just selling hybrids exclusively till mid-decade. |
It probably makes more sense to base it on a CO
2 emissions target vs straight saies percentages, though on the surface it seems like the EU approach would be more complicated to police (but perhaps not, if ghg calculations are done for each individual models anyhow. Then it would just be a case of tabulating and averaging, presumably).
Either way, I prefer the approach whereby emissions are reduced at the cost of the automaker vs giving tax $ out to those who can already afford to buy a new premium vehicle.
I'm thinking that the move Biden just made is affecting Canada's decision on subsidies anyhow... so politics has entered into this even more than it should be.