US Niubility 居然搞了个36987丑闻，估计所有电动车企业都要扒一层皮了。
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回顾近年来的环境丑闻，很难有比大众汽车2015年的柴油排放作弊更糟糕的了。这家德国汽车制造商受到了监管机构、执法机构和集体诉讼律师的正当追究。
这起丑闻最终让大众汽车付出了约330亿美元的罚款和财务和解的代价，并揭示了柴油排放作弊的普遍性。2020年，戴姆勒公司就梅赛德斯-奔驰柴油车的排放作弊达成了15亿美元的和解。去年，发动机制造商康明斯同意支付17亿美元，以了结其规避柴油排放标准的指控。
在所有这些案例中，监管机构都惩罚了那些偷工减料和误导公众的汽车制造商。但是，当涉及到电动汽车时，政府自己也有一个作弊丑闻。这个丑闻，引起的关注远远少于前者，被深埋在联邦公报的第65卷第36987页。
当汽车制造商为了符合交通部的燃油效率规则而测试汽油动力车辆时，他们必须使用实验室测量的真实数值。相比之下，根据能源部的一项规定，汽车制造商可以任意地将电动汽车的效率乘以6.67。这意味着，尽管2022年的特斯拉Model Y在实验室中的测试相当于每加仑大约65英里(与混合动力车差不多)，但它被计算为有着高达430英里每加仑的荒谬的合规值。这个数字在现实或法律上没有任何依据。
为了夸大电动汽车的效率，政府奖励汽车制造商以合规信用为代价进行交易。经济学家估计，这些信用可能价值数十亿美元：这是由官僚发明的，由每一个购买新的汽油动力车的人支付的巨大的交叉补贴。
直到最近，这种补贴还是华盛顿的秘密。汽车制造商和监管机构都喜欢这样。监管机构可以宣布听起来很严格的目标，而汽车制造商则会点头称是，因为他们知道他们可以通过制造具有任意提高的合规值的电动汽车来达到合规。消费者则会在不知情的情况下买单。
秘密被揭穿了。在环保团体指出这种骗局的非法性之后，能源部提议取消电动汽车的6.67倍数，承认这个数字“缺乏法律支持”和“没有依据”。
汽车制造商惊慌失措，请求拜登政府推迟任何回归法律或工程现实的举动。这是可以理解的。没有这个倍数，交通部提出的规则是完全不可达到的。但是，可行的规则不需要政府创造的作弊代码。汽车制造商应该直面这个问题。
这起丑闻最终让大众汽车付出了约330亿美元的罚款和财务和解的代价，并揭示了柴油排放作弊的普遍性。2020年，戴姆勒公司就梅赛德斯-奔驰柴油车的排放作弊达成了15亿美元的和解。去年，发动机制造商康明斯同意支付17亿美元，以了结其规避柴油排放标准的指控。
在所有这些案例中，监管机构都惩罚了那些偷工减料和误导公众的汽车制造商。但是，当涉及到电动汽车时，政府自己也有一个作弊丑闻。这个丑闻，引起的关注远远少于前者，被深埋在联邦公报的第65卷第36987页。
当汽车制造商为了符合交通部的燃油效率规则而测试汽油动力车辆时，他们必须使用实验室测量的真实数值。相比之下，根据能源部的一项规定，汽车制造商可以任意地将电动汽车的效率乘以6.67。这意味着，尽管2022年的特斯拉Model Y在实验室中的测试相当于每加仑大约65英里(与混合动力车差不多)，但它被计算为有着高达430英里每加仑的荒谬的合规值。这个数字在现实或法律上没有任何依据。
为了夸大电动汽车的效率，政府奖励汽车制造商以合规信用为代价进行交易。经济学家估计，这些信用可能价值数十亿美元：这是由官僚发明的，由每一个购买新的汽油动力车的人支付的巨大的交叉补贴。
直到最近，这种补贴还是华盛顿的秘密。汽车制造商和监管机构都喜欢这样。监管机构可以宣布听起来很严格的目标，而汽车制造商则会点头称是，因为他们知道他们可以通过制造具有任意提高的合规值的电动汽车来达到合规。消费者则会在不知情的情况下买单。
秘密被揭穿了。在环保团体指出这种骗局的非法性之后，能源部提议取消电动汽车的6.67倍数，承认这个数字“缺乏法律支持”和“没有依据”。
汽车制造商惊慌失措，请求拜登政府推迟任何回归法律或工程现实的举动。这是可以理解的。没有这个倍数，交通部提出的规则是完全不可达到的。但是，可行的规则不需要政府创造的作弊代码。汽车制造商应该直面这个问题。
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看看WSJ怎么说的，CFC错过这条新闻了？我今天才看到。
The Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal
A government rule makes them look nearly seven times as efficient as they are.
By
Michael Buschbacher
and
James Conde
Jan. 16, 2024 6:02 pm ET
It’s hard to think of a worse environmental scandal in recent years than
Volkswagen
’s 2015 diesel-emissions cheating. The German automaker was rightly pursued by regulators, enforcement agencies and class-action lawyers.
The scandal ended up costing Volkswagen an estimated $33 billion in fines and financial settlements—and revealed that diesel-emissions cheating was endemic. In 2020
Daimler
AG made a $1.5 billion settlement over emissions cheating in Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles. (One of us helped secure that settlement.) Last year engine maker Cummins agreed to pay $1.7 billion to settle claims that it skirted diesel-emissions standards.
In all of these cases, regulators punished carmakers that had cut corners and misled the public. But when it comes to electric cars, the government has a cheating scandal of its own. That scandal, grabbing far fewer headlines, is buried deep in the Federal Register—on page 36,987 of volume 65.
When carmakers test gasoline-powered vehicles for compliance with the Transportation Department’s fuel-efficiency rules, they must use real values measured in a laboratory. By contrast, under an Energy Department rule, carmakers can arbitrarily multiply the efficiency of electric cars by 6.67. This means that although a 2022
Tesla
Model Y tests at the equivalent of about 65 miles per gallon in a laboratory (roughly the same as a hybrid), it is counted as having an absurdly high compliance value of 430 mpg. That number has no basis in reality or law.
For exaggerating electric-car efficiency, the government rewards carmakers with compliance credits they can trade for cash. Economists estimate these credits could be worth billions: a vast cross-subsidy invented by bureaucrats and paid for by every person who buys a new gasoline-powered car.
Until recently, this subsidy was a Washington secret. Carmakers and regulators liked it that way. Regulators could announce what sounded like stringent targets, and carmakers would nod along, knowing they could comply by making electric cars with arbitrarily boosted compliance values. Consumers would unknowingly foot the bill.
The secret is out. After environmental groups pointed out the illegality of this charade, the Energy Department proposed eliminating the 6.67 multiplier for electric cars, recognizing that the number “lacks legal support” and has “no basis.”
Carmakers have panicked and asked the Biden administration to delay any return to legal or engineering reality. That is understandable. Without the multiplier, the Transportation Department’s proposed rules are completely unattainable. But workable rules don’t require government-created cheat codes. Carmakers should confront that problem head on.
Mr. Buschbacher is a partner at the law firm Boyden Gray PLLC. He served in the Justice Department’s Environment Division (2020-21). Mr. Conde is counsel at Boyden Gray PLLC.
WSJ Opinion: Buyers Just Say No to Electric Vehicles
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Appeared in the January 17, 2024, print edition as 'The Electric-Car Cheating Scandal'.
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