The Tesla Group has urged the Trump administration not to remove the emission standards for vehicles. Billions are at stake for the e-car pioneer.
• US environmental authority wants to loosen rules for vehicle emissions
• Tesla advocates holding on strict exhaust gas regulations
• Tesla’s business model threatened
After several large automotive groups – including General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen – had asked the US environmental authority EPA to withdraw the strict emission limit values, Tesla has faced this request. The lobby group spoke of too ambitious requirements and complained about the associated high costs.
As reported by the Reuters news agency, the e-car manufacturer then wrote in a comment that such a dismantling of the US emission standards would “give engine and vehicle manufacturers a free ticket for measurement, control and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions for all road engines and vehicles”.
Loosening of exhaust gas regulations “the value of the performance -related incentives that electric vehicle manufacturers receive in the context of the standards and creates unequal competitive conditions, which reduces the incentive for investments in vehicle innovations,” warned Tesla.
Environmental authority wants to loosen exhaust gas rules
The EPA had previously signaled that it wanted to withdraw the assessment that climate change affects the health of US citizens. As a result, this step would weaken the legal basis in order to pay attention to CO2 in the regulations on fuel consumption.
Billions business for Tesla
If the US emission limit values are deleted as planned, a billion dollar business would break away for Tesla. Because because of the Elon Musk Guided group only produces electric cars, he has so far been able to easily fall below the specified limit values and thus sell his surplus of emission certificates to other car manufacturers who, due to their combustion cars, could not reach the exhaust gas targets on his own.
In 2024 alone, Tesla had $ 2.8 billion worldwide through the sale of these emission certificates. For the US group, it is not just about climate policy, but a core of his business model.
The fact that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was a close advisor to US President Donald Trump gives enormous explosiveness to this topic and had massively supported his election campaign. But this spring, the two argued because of the state budget, with Trump hinting that Musk only had objections because the draft budget provides for to abolish tax credits for buyers from electric vehicles. But in the meantime the waves seem to have smoothed out again, at least Musk and Trump have recently been blurred at the funeral service for the murdered right -wing populist Charlie Kirk.
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