When lower-income households face affordability barriers, it’s not just their problem – it’s the missing link to achieving a full switch to electric vehicles.
The KEI cars by design don’t fit all safety and environmental ratings at higher speed the consumers cars have to adhere to in North America.
They exist as a very specific portion of the automotive market created in Japan by legal limitations that defines their profiles and capacities for taxes purposes. The fact that KEI trucks can be imported is actually a lack of extended regulations to farm equipment in the US.
The North American automotive market has no monetary or legal incentives to sell even inspired KEI cars since they are to cheap to make a reasonable margin and no tax loophole exist to prop up the industry.
The KEI cars by design don’t fit all safety and environmental ratings at higher speed the consumers cars have to adhere to in North America.
They exist as a very specific portion of the automotive market created in Japan by legal limitations that defines their profiles and capacities for taxes purposes. The fact that KEI trucks can be imported is actually a lack of extended regulations to farm equipment in the US.
The North American automotive market has no monetary or legal incentives to sell even inspired KEI cars since they are to cheap to make a reasonable margin and no tax loophole exist to prop up the industry.
Are you conflating the chicken tax and the 25 year rule for imports?
My Kei truck is licensed as a “non-highway vehicle” in WA. Not using it as farm equipment at all.
Agreed that the US doesn’t have the equivalent incentives that made the KEI category a thing in the first place in Japan.