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Originally Posted by Casper
None of the manufacturers have any choice in introducing electric vehicles because the new fleet averaging for emissions gives them no choice in the matter and they have deadlines to meet. The punitive fines are huge and not to even be considered by any manufacturer so deadlines will be met.
A lot of people think the electrification of the new car fleet is a trendy thing thought up by the OEM's where in fact they are being faced with huge punishment by the legislators if they don't comply to targets set.
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The fleet average required isn't zero. It's 95 g CO2/km which could easily be met by **exclusively** selling vehicles with an engine capacity of no more than 900cc. No hybrid needed, no EV needed.
It's the selfishness of some customers still wanting polluting large engines for their personal vehicles that causes the pickle and creates the "need" to balance out polluting vehicles with low and zero emissions ones.