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发帖数: 20761 | 1 Tesla sold greenhouse gas credits to Fiat and… GM?
As federal regulations get stricter, auto companies seek to buy credits.
MEGAN GEUSS - 6/3/2019, 4:41 PM
Tesla sold greenhouse gas credits to Fiat and... GM?
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GM and Fiat Chrysler have reported that they purchased federal greenhouse
gas emissions credits from Tesla, according to filings made to the state of
Delaware and viewed by Bloomberg.
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Both the US federal government and California offer automaker credits for
selling zero-emissions vehicles. Those automakers can then sell those
credits to automakers who exceed their pollution restrictions in a sort of
cap-and-trade system that imposes extra cost on automakers not improving the
fuel efficiency of their fleet.
Tesla has reported sales of its credits for years, but generally the buyers
have been kept private. An exception to this occurred in April, when the
Financial Times discovered a deal between Fiat Chrysler and Tesla that was
reportedly worth hundreds of millions of euros. According to FT, Tesla had
allowed Fiat to pool its European fleet with Tesla's in order to meet strict
EU average fuel-economy emissions laws.
Given that news, it's not too surprising that Fiat Chrysler is buying US
federal fuel-economy credits from Tesla to help it meet stricter and
stricter emissions laws in the United States. What is slightly more
surprising is that General Motors is reportedly purchasing compliance
credits from Tesla, too. GM is Tesla's most mature competitor in electric
vehicle sales (the company sold enough Bolt electric vehicles in Q4 2018 to
trigger a phase-out of the federal electric vehicle tax credit). But
ultimately, GM sells far more internal combustion engines than it does
electric vehicles.
According to Bloomberg, GM is not currently in a position where it needs to
buy federal emissions compliance credits. But the company is purchasing
these credits from Tesla proactively so that it can easily meet tougher
future emissions requirements in the US, especially if Democrats regain
power in 2020.
The details of the deals between Tesla, GM, and Fiat were not made public,
but we know Tesla sold $190 million worth of regulatory credits in Q3 2018.
Bloomberg reports that Tesla has raked in nearly $2 billion in compliance
credit sales since 2010.
The current administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
argued that emissions regulations in the US are too strict and too costly
for automakers. Although miles-per-gallon numbers increased in 2017, most
automakers used credits they banked in pervious years to reach full
compliance with greenhouse gas rules. | i*****9
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发帖数: 43471 | 3 这本来就是tsla成立时候的唯一利润模式，elon早就说过卖车不可能赚钱，他做梦就是
想的是一年可以卖100 billion的carbon credit
【在 i*****9 的大作中提到】
: 这一直是Tesla的主要利润来源呀。
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发帖数: 1 | 4 博导信一龙得永生的节奏？lol
：这本来就是tsla成立时候的唯一利润模式，elon早就说过卖车不可能赚钱，他做梦就
是想的是一年可以卖100 billion的carbon credit
：【 在 insect9 (insect9) 的大作中提到: 】
：: 这一直是Tesla的主要利润来源呀。 |
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