Japan’s Nissan in October pooled with Chinese EV giant BYD
Another pool was formed at the end of September by South Korea’s KG Mobility and Chinese EV maker Xpeng
In January, Tesla formed a pool with Stellantis, Toyota, Ford, Chinese EV maker Leapmotor, Mazda and Subaru. Japan’s Honda and Suzuki joined the pool in March.
This pool was also formed in January to include Mercedes, Volvo Car, EV maker Polestar and Smart Automobile.
wtf is a pool?
EU allows automakers to “pool” their fleets with others for CO2 measurements, so if one of them is below the threshold and the other above, they can meet it with the average of their combined fleets and avoid the fines.
The automakers dragging the CO2 average down (by selling EVs) are paid by those who wouldn’t meet the limit for this “service”.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with this. It is an incentive for automakers to do even better than the limit, since they can earn money with it.
Ah, so like Tesla’s shtick.