This is fucked. But aren’t “passenger vehicles” actually quite rare? I think most (environmental and safety) regulation is on passenger vehicles, which is why auto manufacturers try and sell so many trucks and SUVs since they don’t count as “passenger vehicles”. I could be wrong and this mandate is going to target all consumer vehicles.
Fuck all cars and our American car brained culture. But also fuck this legislation.
You are wrong. The move to SUVs and trucks is because the the larger a vehicle is, the more lenient the regulations are. That’s why the current Ranger is larger than a 90s F150.
Yeah IIRC emissions shit was like that. So you can get a truck that weighs 2500kg puts out 158g/km of emissions but not an Asian style mini-truck that weighs only 1500kg and puts out i.e. 130g/km of emissions because it’s in the same weight-class as say a Corolla (for which the max emissions might be only i.e. 100g/km)
So the mini truck might produce less pollution than the bigger truck and be perfectly useful for many people, but it’s too much PER WEIGHT and thus doesn’t qualify under the emissions regulations
This is fucked. But aren’t “passenger vehicles” actually quite rare? I think most (environmental and safety) regulation is on passenger vehicles, which is why auto manufacturers try and sell so many trucks and SUVs since they don’t count as “passenger vehicles”. I could be wrong and this mandate is going to target all consumer vehicles.
Fuck all cars and our American car brained culture. But also fuck this legislation.
You are wrong. The move to SUVs and trucks is because the the larger a vehicle is, the more lenient the regulations are. That’s why the current Ranger is larger than a 90s F150.
Yeah IIRC emissions shit was like that. So you can get a truck that weighs 2500kg puts out 158g/km of emissions but not an Asian style mini-truck that weighs only 1500kg and puts out i.e. 130g/km of emissions because it’s in the same weight-class as say a Corolla (for which the max emissions might be only i.e. 100g/km)
So the mini truck might produce less pollution than the bigger truck and be perfectly useful for many people, but it’s too much PER WEIGHT and thus doesn’t qualify under the emissions regulations
Doesn’t matter. Manufacturers will put them in everything.