Profiting from Pollution - How the auto industry is fighting against clean car regulations

● Allow automakers to get a taxpayer-funded boost in profits of up to $10 billion in the long term scenario while still failing to meet the 2030 and 2035 sales targets, by capturing the value of the purchase incentive they are lobbying for. [...] Zero Emission Vehicle Sales Pathways in Modeled Scenarios Source: See Clean Car Standard Technical Report The auto industry is setting an impossibly high bar for the level of charging infrastructure they believe will be required to support the rollout of the influx of EVs that will be hitting the road in the years to come. [...] The consequences of what they've done are just almost unimaginable." - Former US Vice-President Al Gore on the activities of the GCC46 Ford and GM also gave generously to think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation which disputed the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. [...] If they can convince the government that the best solution is increased subsidies, instead of regulation, they can continue to capture the value of purchase incentives, use it to lower the prices of gasoline cars, and keep selling them far into the future – regardless of the consequences to the climate. [...] The federal government can also help to ensure that batteries are built to be easily recycled in the first place, for example by establishing battery labelling standards to ensure cell chemistry information can be used to simplify reuse and end-of-life recycling.77 In addition, it will be important for the federal government to monitor the pollution impact of the full life cycle of EV batteries to.