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Originally Posted by Sprintey
https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-new...sions-standard
We can see why they might.
Tremendous change is happening in the auto market, right now. Overseas, we are seeing companies calling for a slow down in the implementation of their CO2/EV policies for cars. Australia has no domestic industry to protect, so it's watch with popcorn time.
What do you think? Slow it down? Let it rip? Lord of the flies approach, and let the dust settle? Or just vote out the government?
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I reckon let it rip, kick all the OEMs in the *** massively, now they can't rest on a bunch of shitbox diesel utes because they start paying penalties if they've got nothing to bring the averages down - this effects Ford Australia because they've decided to cut everything rather than offer a decent cross section of vehicles to the Australian market, where as Toyota is sitting quite well and can build up significant credits because of their offering to the Australian market doesn't solely rest on a diesel ute and a SUV thats a diesel ute with a roof over the back of it.
However, Australia will have their say on this in May before it comes into effect, the opposition could campaign on killing the NVES before it kicks off in July, however it narrows their path to winning the election because it reduces the chances of them winning back any Teal seats, who are in key electorates who support the NVES, who are backed by a billionaire, who markets very effectively.
A cheeky alternative, is that the opposition could broaden the exemptions of the NVES to make it effectively useless, but still keep it around so they're still 'for the environment'
on paper, think of worthless shit like the scam thats carbon credits.
At the end of the day Australia with our sub 30M population, we don't do anything to the environment compared to India and China, and you don't solve environmental issues by putting taxes and levies on things. Introducing new taxes and levies doesn't 'fix' anything, like how putting ridiculous taxes on tobacco doesn't stop smokers from having health issues, or stop them from smoking.
However, either way at the end of the day I couldn't give a shit because I'm not a customer of the car manufacturers this is going to hurt and we don't have any local manufacturing industry to protect either, no skin off our noses.
If the government was going to make a reasonable compromise, they should have introduced the NVES but as a sweetener, dropped the ADRs which would allow manufacturers to easily bring in their cleaner vehicles they don't offer to the Australian market, because they dont want to invest the engineering funds to make their vehicles meet the very specific requirements of a tiny market with lots of competition.