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In an open letter addressed to California Air Resources Board (CARB), Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, along with 44 others, encouraged the California state to forgive Volkswagen for the Dieselgate scandal and proposed a set of solutions such as forcing the German company to make the transition to zero-emission vehicles.
In their opinion, the VW scandal is the result of physics meeting fiction, and by imposing these set of rules, California will be able to clean the air, which is more important than trying to clean the cars' emissions.
The letter also reveals a 5-point plan, which stipulates to release VW from its obligation to fix the diesel cars already on the road in California because they represent a small portion of the total vehicle emissions in the country. Other solutions proposed by the 44 include directing VW to accelerate its rollout of zero emission vehicles and asking the German company to invest in new manufacturing plants, research and development.
CARB is also assured that by implementing these proposals, the state would score a real win for its emissions and jobs, and it would take a historic action against climate change.
According to Mashable, although the signatories seem to have good intentions, the proposal might be profit-driven, because the majority of them have made investments in green technology companies. If VW is forced to make the fast transition to zero emission cars, the German company would first need to buy zero emission credits and a lot of batteries so that it would be a winning situation for them.
In the final part, the letter reveals the precedent on which it is based. In the 1990 diesel truck cheating scandal, the EPA moved up the deadline for tougher standards rather than require an interim recall.
The 90’s scandal was very much the same as Dieselgate. Then, the Justice Department on behalf of the EPA sued every major diesel engine manufacturer in the United States because their heavy trucks were equipped with devices that defeated the engines’ emissions control system. When driven in real conditions, the trucks had three times the legal NOx emissions.
The letter also reveals a 5-point plan, which stipulates to release VW from its obligation to fix the diesel cars already on the road in California because they represent a small portion of the total vehicle emissions in the country. Other solutions proposed by the 44 include directing VW to accelerate its rollout of zero emission vehicles and asking the German company to invest in new manufacturing plants, research and development.
CARB is also assured that by implementing these proposals, the state would score a real win for its emissions and jobs, and it would take a historic action against climate change.
According to Mashable, although the signatories seem to have good intentions, the proposal might be profit-driven, because the majority of them have made investments in green technology companies. If VW is forced to make the fast transition to zero emission cars, the German company would first need to buy zero emission credits and a lot of batteries so that it would be a winning situation for them.
In the final part, the letter reveals the precedent on which it is based. In the 1990 diesel truck cheating scandal, the EPA moved up the deadline for tougher standards rather than require an interim recall.
The 90’s scandal was very much the same as Dieselgate. Then, the Justice Department on behalf of the EPA sued every major diesel engine manufacturer in the United States because their heavy trucks were equipped with devices that defeated the engines’ emissions control system. When driven in real conditions, the trucks had three times the legal NOx emissions.
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