Why is the Hemi Going Away

rjstractor wrote:

Reisander wrote:

Ok. But can’t Stellantis just make some cars that generate the same compliance credits and buy them from themselves? Electric cars are the number one selling cars in the world. Wouldn’t it make sense for Stellantis to make some and get the credits?

That's exactly why the Hemi is going away- to help increase the CAFE numbers so that Stellantis (or whomever owns Chrysler this week) doesn't have to pay for the carbon credits. It will be interesting to see if Tesla continues to be profitable after they are no longer selling carbon credits. I imagine they will, since they were able to leverage the profits from selling the credits to accelerate R&D of models like the Y.

I kind of agree with StonedPanther on the general silliness of compliance credits- nothing but an environmental shell game. Kind of like destroying a wetland area but "creating" another wetland 50 miles away to make up for it.

Just another version of the gas guzzler tax in which manufacturers usually were willing to except for their showcase cars that were implemented to build excitement with the brand and were typically low volume.

In the case of the Hemi it sounds like Chrysler/Stellantis is having to pay millions for the credits since this engine is their primary powerplant.