Customer .... I wonder if there's scope for an 'on paper' split of the three-wheel and four-wheel production that might give scope to a doubling of their allowance? .... my guess the cutoff would be 1000 cars in total rather than 1000 cars into a particular market such as the EU .... otherwise I think there are 190 ish countries in the World and that's not a niche manufacturer.
Hope our lot see sense and don't get terrified into abandoning our small producers by a bit of noisy green publicity.
K
I think the Super 3 is outside this EU allowance, as it registers as a trike.
& yes it's an interesting question, whether the EU is allowing for 1000 cars to be sold in the EU, or if they're limiting the exemption to manufacturers who sell fewer than 1000 cars in the EU. The Autocar article says "manufacturers that register fewer than 1000 cars annually" - so conceiveably Rolls Royce, Mclaren, Lotus, and maybe Aston Martin could qualify.
Whether they think it's a good thing for their corporate image to be manufacturing ICE cars is another matter. More likely I guess they'll be offering hybrids, which run on synthetic fuels.
The thing politicians need to phase out and eventually ban is fossil fuel, not the engines that use it.
& encourage the production & distribution of synthetics - which if nothing else loads the cost onto the private sector (fuel companies0 and motorists, rather than the public purse having the cost of rewiring the country.
Will
