That’s not gonna solve the problem when everything is switching to electric. It’ll be even cheaper to power a vehicle like this, plus they can cram it with batteries to tout a high range. See: Hummer EV.
To be more precise: fuel efficiency standards go down with the physical volume a vehicle takes up.
So every year efficiency requirement goes up, but you just update the body every few years to add a little more sheet metal and stay within your legal mandate.
And larger vehicles aren’t subject require to be as fuel efficient as smaller ones are.
That problem is going to sort itself out. The era of cheap fossil fuels is over. And it’s not coming back.
America will subsidize gasoline before it stops burning it.
They are doing so already. But even that has limits.
The limit is the petrodollar, of course. Once that’s defunct the whole thing falls down.
Until then wheeeeeeeee~!
That’s not gonna solve the problem when everything is switching to electric. It’ll be even cheaper to power a vehicle like this, plus they can cram it with batteries to tout a high range. See: Hummer EV.
To be more precise: fuel efficiency standards go down with the physical volume a vehicle takes up.
So every year efficiency requirement goes up, but you just update the body every few years to add a little more sheet metal and stay within your legal mandate.