The car was designed for the sole purpose of fulfilling the EPA numbers game, which rates car manufacturers on the "total fleet mileage" for determination of compliance with the every tighter emissions rules for each model year.
By actually producing the car and "leasing it to customers" they met some EPA bean counters calculation of allowable miles vs emissions for the production fleet of cars and trucks sold. You will find it all nicely hidden in page 12,340,9575,002.a in the EPA book of regulations. [being snarky]. but you get the point. Grant... On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Curt wrote: > > Considering a decade ago there were none if you saw one for every > thousand cars thats a huge leap... > > > > This, thanks to GM and the removal of their EV1 that entered as lease > vehicle only and then got yanked. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJAlrYjGz8 > mao > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
