ItsNotAboutTheMoney
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He is talking about keeping cars with the same size and performance. Not making every car for sale a Prius. Like large cars with big V8s. Look at the Lexus LS hybrid. 20 MPG combined. Tough to get that to any where near 54 MPG. And keep the same performance.
The Camry Hybrid XLE has a combined CAFE rating of 54.8331. But it only goes from 0 to 60 in 7.2 seconds instead of in the 5s. Oh noes!
Given that any half-decent hybrid already hits the target, that electrics clearly beat the target, that electrification continues to get cheaper, and that they aren't even pushing diesel hard here yet, the targets really won't be hard to hit.
The irony of the complaint is that when gas was cheap people would buy larger, more expensive vehicles, yet the NADA guy says that spending more on a cheap-to-fuel electric vehicle is irrational consumer behavior.
And there's always the $55/mpg fine.