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Is there any evidence of this? If it does exist, is there a way within EU rules and regulations that it is legal? It would seem to me that an otherwise disinterested shareholder in such a company has an extremely strong case of having been harmed by such action as inequal payments; that doing so is the end result of a company not having acted with obvious foresight to taking the steps needed to avoid having to pay anything to a competitor, let alone less to such competitor, who also is playing by the rules the EU had set forth, than to the EU.
Am I missing something here?
You have to be in an emissions pool with other companies who have surplus credits (er, Tesla?) to cancel out. So that's down to voluntary contractual stuff & if Tesla is already spoken for (FCA & later Honda) & all credits used up, VW & others can't get hold of credits for love nor money. They COULD have ASKED to join the pool earlier, but didn't & VW have their own pool. From Q420 coverage, it seems that Tesla sell credits/FCA/Honda buy in ad-hoc ways & hard to predict.
So from a 'sue VW management' point of view, I think it can't be won. It was a decision. They could also argue that helping a competitor is worse than fines (their argument, not mine).
Links saying (probably) more or less the same thing, VW will be paying fines.
More EVs Needed! VW Fined For Missing Emissions Targets - EV News Daily
Volkswagen faces EU fine for missing 2020 emissions targets | Financial Post
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When googling for OEMs other than Tesla having credits, I'm finding too many irrelevant articles, but off the top of my head, only Tesla, MG will have credits. Other big EV OEMs also have more ICE (Peugeot, Renault, Nissan, Volvo/Polestar).
Tesla much bigger than MG (at present). I think NIO is launching in Norway/Europe soon.