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“We cannot support it:” Polestar follows Tesla out of car lobby over Toyota led campaign (thedriven.io)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tesla announced it had quit the FCAI on Thursday and Polestar followed it up on Friday, saying the FCAI campaign – driven largely by Japanese car makers led by Toyota – is intolerable.

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Tesla and now Polestar’s announcement that they intend to leave the FCAI adds to mounting pressure on CEO Tony Webber who last month came under fire for threatening to run a 2010 anti mining tax style fear campaign against the government’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard.

The fossil car lobby group CEO claimed that the NVES would cost the entire car-buying public $38 billion in the first five years, which led to the AFR running a story titled “Labor’s new EV-boosting rules will cost $38b, auto group says” followed by Coalition leader Peter Dutton and Nationals Senator Matt Canavan parroting claims that the NVES would see the price of popular vehicles increase by up to $25,000. Claims that have been widely rejected including by the Electric Vehicle Council.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, sadly this isn't an option for everyone. Simply put, I work 65km from where I live, and PT just isn't an option for the locations I work.

This is not about the consumer - don't let big business' shady tricks gull you into believing otherwise. The stark reality is that successive governments haven't done anywhere near enough to curb industrial pollution or drive emissions reduction.

Consumers will buy whatever the market offers them. We're the end result - not the driver.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

What the world really needs is a huge carbon tax which will make everything reflect its true price. That would make cars a lot more expensive.

Also cars should pay for all the space they take up on high value land and the damage they do to the streets. Which would make them ever more expensive.

Cars are ridiculously subsidised