brucedp5 wrote: > That post and its responses are really about what 'we each' think what a > 'compliance car' is. > > I had this thought over a week ago when a news item tried to say the Bolt > was not a compliance car based on how many EVs GM 'had to' produce vs how > many more GM said they were going to make. > > I know this topic could open a 'can of worms', but I think the definition > of compliance car needs to be re-evaluated. What was a compliance car in > the 1990's and 2000's, is much different than today.
I disagree. I think that 'compliance' is a well-defined and unambiguous term that refers specifically to *complying* with a ZEV mandate such as CARB's to the minimum extent possible. A compliance car would therefore only be offered where required to *comply* with such a mandate, and even in these areas might or might not be available for purchase. Any vehicle offered for sale where not *required* to satisfy some regulation or mandate *cannot* be considered to be a compliance car, regardless of how competitive or desirable any individual might consider it relative to other available vehicles. I think attempts to redefine or broaden the definition of the term to include vehicles that are offered for sale even where not required to comply with such mandates simply because an individual disagrees with the manufacturer's design choices or such is simply a case of those people who insist upon seeing the glass as half empty rather than half full and need to find something to complain about even as OEM EVs [slowly] become more readily available. Cheers, Roger. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
