Same story every Windows update

The company’s didn’t circumvent anything, they followed the regulation. The regulation was the problem. Car were getting better emissions and mileage, and emission standards were getting better. The law as written made selling small cars less profitable than selling large ones. So companies naturally went to selling large vehicles.

More regulation could have helped in this situation sure, but they didn’t do that. In the end they caused a generational problem instead of admitting they were wrong and changing the rules

It is what it is. Not like i can do anything with these points anyways.

No regulation is a problem, and incorrect regulation is also a problem. Both led to terrible outcomes.

Your insite on this topic is amazing and we are all better of for it.

Thanks. This is exactly what happened. And when vehicles started becoming larger, consumers wanted to feel safe so it become an arms race of size. Now we have a whole generation of drivers that demand large vehicles.

Your are the only one that thinks the epa didn’t cause large vehicles. Just Google “suv loophole” and get some free knowledge.

The policy had good intentions, but failed miserably. But keep defending a policy even the policy makers admit was a mistake.

Just Google suv loophole. Knowledge is still free.

No, that’s a logical fallacy, and you are using another one called a strawman. It’s common knowledge in the industry the epa created large vehicles. It’s not even disputed except here on lemmy for some reason

No, it was the standard that made large vehicles. Not enforcement. And yes smog is a real thing.

Usually large works for carb.

People who work in environmental compliance. I worked for carb for 10 yrs

And the law made the cars bigger

That’s not what the CEO of gm and ford said when the epa started these rules

This is just another way of saying the policy lead to bigger vehicles.

The original price of 24950 included the federal tax rebate. This is why they used cheaper batteries and other cost cutting to try to keep the price the same. The rebates are gone.

The EPA did this. It created a whole generation of customers wanting large vehicles because of their dumb emissions standards they wrote. Glad they are gone so we can make small cars again.

Edit: boy lemmings be lemming.

This will flop. Iol be surprised if this gets more than 5 units sold to collectors.