Ford, VW, BMW, And Honda Voluntarily Agree To Meet California Emission Guidelines

100% for PR purposes.

Good for them. Each state has the right to make their own guidelines and automakers can choose whether they want to sale there or not.

God, you're stupid.

these separate state emission policies are silly. its not like they can actually control the air flowing in/out/through state lines, with the some kind of a force-field extending up to space. hey wait, can they?

No Matt - YOU are stupid.

Each state currently DOES have the ability to set Emission standards - as long as they also meet or surpass National Standards. That is law and while Trump may try to do an end around the COngress again - through a Royal Proclamation -those things rarely stand up in court.

And California DOES have a unique situation that causes Air quality problems.

Global Warming is happening - steadily - and the Oceans ARE rising - those TWO things ARE absolutely TRUE - and cannot be denied. The scientific community AROUND THE WORLD and in the USA agree. THAT a bunch of right wing anarchists ignore reality and try to say otherwise has not basis in scientific fact.

There is no irrefutable science to prove global warming. To say there is is ignorant.

There is no irrefutable science to prove global warming

Umm, take a look here,

https://climate.nasa.gov/

@TomM Get off my ass and go back to killing your rich friends for personal profit.

@scenicbyway12 CTRL + V is all you know. The NASA info has already been debunked as being highly partisan and not scientific.

Who has debunked the NASA data?

The car companies know reality. Regardless of what Trump is doing, California and the REST of the world are working to cut emissions. That will only continue regardless of the fantasy land that climate-change deniers live in. The rest of us who live in the real world have moved on.

The day after Trump is re-elected, the bitch slapping of California will begin and it will be brutal. #SpeedTheDay

Who to believe? An internet troll or companies that are making multi-billion dollar decisions based on acknowledging climate change and planning accordingly?

Putting aside the fact that this is California, these automakers see the writing on the wall. If you are striving to make a BEV Full Size Pickup or have a fleet of BEV or Hydrogen cars doing testing laps at your development centre, it only makes sense to keep up with your competitors and agree to these slightly tougher emission rules. I would hazard to guess more US States and Canadian Provinces will see it this way as we move forward (one set of standards across the nations who signed NAFTA) than trying to stand still or regress to lower targets.

Actually NO. An official in California threatened to shame manufacturers if they didn't. This is coercion pure and simple.