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by rblatz 2763 days ago
Demand exceeds supply and they lose several thousand dollars on each of them? If only there was some sort of market driven mechanism to solve this issue.
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They are willing to take the loss because they have fleet wide emissions targets. So they will sell just enough to allow them to sell the SUVs they actually want to make - but no more.
That's the culprit. Fleet emissions targets should allow for credits to exceed targets so you'd get more points for over achievements.