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Notice the squareheads raining on the parade in the comments section, I can bet you most of them think dualie Diesel truck exhaust fume inhalation is part of normal child development.
This little bit bothers me...clearly Mrs. Figueres does not understand Tesla's mission or that the Model 3 will launch next year:
"Figueres said high-end electric car company Tesla could not lead a mass market conversion now because its cheapest models start at around $70,000.
"Tesla <TSLGI.RTS> is certainly opening up very, very new ground but Tesla, as we all know, is not exactly the peoples' vehicle," Figueres said."
Hopefully someone will enlighten her later this month.
As for Tesla having an impact on climate change (or not). It has been a good business move to focus on high profit margin (read, expensive) vehicles first. For Tesla to make an inexpensive mass market car, it needs to stay in business. It also needs to build a highly desirable vehicle (e.g. not-Leaf). Plan seems to be working so far.
VW, thanks for now doing the right thing. Please don't forget to give credit where credit is due.
VW may not survive to build "The Peoples Vehicle":
VW’s latest emissions woes are bigger than just diesel - The Globe and Mail
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and more...
VW recalling 92,000 cars to fix problem with brakes - The Globe and Mail
67% drop in VW sales in Korea
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2015/11/123_190330.html
I think every car sold by VW in korea is a diesel except for the GTI
Cheers !
But VW's market share declined by only 8% in the U.K.
And the European Commission raised the on-road emissions limit for nitrogen oxides (NOX) emissions from diesel cars for 2017 at 2.1 times the laboratory test-based limit, instead of punishing European diesel car manufacturers with heavy fines.
The miseducation of the diesel car | International Council on Clean Transportation
the insatiable appetite of the Six O'clock news is more powerful than the UN Climate Conference.
Cheers !
But VW's market share declined by only 8% in the U.K.
Very happy that this is over. Today, Belgium is largely subsidizing EV's via tax incentives. Counting all tax incentives over four years ownership, a Tesla MS is more or less at the same price level as a similarly loaded BMW 5-series or Audi A5 (diesel ). The result is that (behind Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands) Belgium has become the European country with the most percentage Tesla's. One can argue whether subsidies/tax incentives are always justified (as in the previous Belgian example of "CO2/diesel-subsidies") but in any event they clearly do work (and today, happily, for Tesla)!
The perception of diesel’s fuel economy is one reason why such cars are still popular across the pond in Europe. But that may not be for long as the Volkswagen saga still dominates the press wires and the attention of bureaucrats. Switzerland, for example, is banning the sale of Volkswagen models known to have been fitted with the defeat device software
How can Volkswagen survive this? In the USA, they defrauded every person who bought one of the vehicles. The "defect" being addressed is there by design, and therefore cannot be fixed. The only remedy would be to buy back the vehicles from every person who purchased one, and possibly pay them 3x the amount paid since it was intentional.
In Europe and Asia, Volkswagen may need to compensate anyone who bought a vehicle, in addition to the tax differential + whatever figure people may be entitled to in cases such as this.
The damages could easily exceed $100 billion. Volkswagen is more than a company, and it's not clear to me how the German government can intervene to produce a resolution. I'm not positive, but I think the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony owns a Tesla. :wink:
Tesla boss Musk calls for 'random emission' testing. Companies. Tengrinews.kz
Post VW Scandal, Elon Musk Calls for Random Emissions Testing
Not sure how it works in the UK (or Korea), but statistics in most countries are based on registrations (i.e. deliveries) of new cars (which most buyers will have ordered a few weeks or months before). VW was in Belgium also proud to announce that October registrations were quite stable compared to September or to last year, but that doesn't mean a thing: the proof of the pudding will be in the December/January registrations, I would think.
Anyway, the VW-Dieselgate story is, from a European perspective, a wonderful thing to have happened (and probably not over yet, because it would be surprising if it were limited to VW...). Until recently in Belgium for example, the federal government would pay 15% of your new car's price if the car had less than 100 g/km CO2 emissions, and taxation and tax deductibility were also based on CO2 (as in many European countries). Only CO2 was taken into account (not the more toxic pollution parameters! - as if CO2 ever killed anyone...). Small diesel city cars are (officially) better at that than their gasoline counterparts, so Belgian inner cities had/have become infested with small city cars running on diesel (great result - and in the meanwhile the Belgian taxpayer was paying Germany, France and Japan for making such great cars, go figure...).
Very happy that this is over. Today, Belgium is largely subsidizing EV's via tax incentives. Counting all tax incentives over four years ownership, a Tesla MS is more or less at the same price level as a similarly loaded BMW 5-series or Audi A5 (diesel ). The result is that (behind Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands) Belgium has become the European country with the most percentage Tesla's. One can argue whether subsidies/tax incentives are always justified (as in the previous Belgian example of "CO2/diesel-subsidies") but in any event they clearly do work (and today, happily, for Tesla)!
The thing is, as was shown by a scientific study conducted in Great Britain, most diesel cars on the road pollute far above the legal limit, whether they have been manufactured by VW or any other car maker. But the mass-media in Europe fail to report that, strangely; or if they do they quickly forget. Corporations protecting other corporations, trying to curtail the scope of the scandal ? Governments and the European Commission doing the exact the same thing ? I must be a conspiracy theorist; you know, one of those lunatics ridiculed by the mass-media and governments.