Tesla Motors Club
All this talk about the CARB backing down again allowed me to find a possible good idea someone posted in the comments on ABG.
I've always wondered why the big three complain about the 35mpg cafe standard when they are already MAKING lots of cars that exceed that standard today. Just not for american consumption but European. So the idea is simply that the legislature demand that any carmanufacturer would be required to offer the smaller engine versions of the same cars they are already selling in the US as a special order. That way it would be possible to get a car with good milage and the car mfg might actually start to realise with todays fuel prices those 1.6 and 2.0L engines do sell.
An example is Fords 4 door Focus which is available with a 90hp 1.6 and a 100hp 1.6 in Norway in addition to the 2.0 available in the states.
So what do you think? Is this my regulating socialist tendencies that is rearing their head or might it be an idea for someone to persue?
Cobos
I've always wondered why the big three complain about the 35mpg cafe standard when they are already MAKING lots of cars that exceed that standard today. Just not for american consumption but European. So the idea is simply that the legislature demand that any carmanufacturer would be required to offer the smaller engine versions of the same cars they are already selling in the US as a special order. That way it would be possible to get a car with good milage and the car mfg might actually start to realise with todays fuel prices those 1.6 and 2.0L engines do sell.
An example is Fords 4 door Focus which is available with a 90hp 1.6 and a 100hp 1.6 in Norway in addition to the 2.0 available in the states.
So what do you think? Is this my regulating socialist tendencies that is rearing their head or might it be an idea for someone to persue?
Cobos