Study: tightening vehicle emissions standards resulted in higher rates of automaker non-compliance; unintended effects of threshold-based regulations
Green Car Congress
JULY 4, 2021
The most common ways to meet emissions thresholds are to install expensive catalytic converters or reduce the weight or horsepower of the vehicle. The main issue here is that the EU is using a straightforward cutoff standard. Economically, automakers have little financial incentive to abide by the tight emissions standards.
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