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Originally Posted by theholycow
This is almost as bad as the brake weight thread. There's even more misinformation in here than there was there...
When did we start talking about emissions?
CAFE divides a manufacturers' products into three lines: Domestic cars, foreign cars (or cars with lots of foreign parts), and trucks.
From http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/CARS/rules/CAFE/overview.htm
"For passenger cars, a vehicle, irrespective of who makes it, is considered as part of the “domestic fleet” if 75% or more of the cost of the content is either U.S. or Canadian in origin. If not, it is considered an import."
According to http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/CARS/rules/CAFE/overview.htm
"The penalty for failing to meet CAFE standards recently increased from $5.00 to $5.50 per tenth of a mile per gallon for each tenth under the target value times the total volume of those vehicles manufactured for a given model year.
Since 1983, manufacturers have paid more than $500 million in civil penalties. Most European manufacturers regularly pay CAFE civil penalties ranging from less than $1 million to more than $20 million annually. Asian and domestic manufacturers have never paid a civil penalty." |
Sorry to be clear,
I meant to say that the new standard can't be reached by a car company now. Meaning they all have work to do to get there but GM is further along then most.
Nice post BTW.