Mercedes-Benz pays $28.9 million in fines for violating fuel-efficiency requirements

[Mr Robert]

If all manufacturers did this as well as BMW does, we would have come a long way.

 

[Wolfgang]

If all manufacturers did this as well as BMW does, we would have come a long way.

Looks like a tie in the USA?

From:

Corporate Average Fuel Economy: How Automakers Rank - Cars.com

 

[Wolfgang]

Tesla's turn to pay an emissions fine.

Tesla Motors pays fine for lacking emissions Certificate of Conformity



Sometimes, technology moves faster than rules and regulations. For instance, in some parts of Kansas, shops must provide water troughs for horses. A more recently inanity is the requirement that electric vehicles receive an emissions "Certificate of Conformity" from the EPA to comply with the "Clean Air Act." And, while Kansan storekeepers have long been excused from abiding by the obviously obsolete ordinance, such is not the case for America's best known electric car maker, Tesla Motors.

Tesla Motors pays fine for lacking emissions Certificate of Conformity — Autoblog