Tesla wants to see higher fines in its home country of the United States for manufacturers that do not meet the local consumption targets. That would provide two benefits for Tesla.
Tesla wants American car manufacturers to be quickly fined if their cars use too much fuel. Tesla is pressuring the US government to tighten rules that were relaxed by former President Donald Trump. It would make Tesla a lot of money and hit competitors in their wallets.
Tesla’s cars are electric and use no fuel. This allows the group to sell rights to other producers, who can thus lower the average fuel consumption of their fleet and reduce fines. Selling those rights is less profitable due to the current relatively flexible rules, Tesla says. Other automakers have said an increase in fines would cost them at least $1 billion annually in fines and rights purchase costs.
In Europe we do not work with fines for excessive average consumption, but with average CO2 emissions. Since last year, the European Commission has also introduced rules whereby the average emissions of all new cars from a manufacturer must be below a certain limit. For example, the Volkswagen Group was unable to meet that limit last year. That resulted in a fine of probably more than €100 million. Tesla had a deal in Europe with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and thus also made money here from the emission rules.
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