The U.S. auto industry would be unable to comply with strict standards on carbon dioxide emissions that Vermont aims to impose, a witness testified on Monday, as the final week of a trial aiming to knock down those state standards got underway.
Automakers General Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG, along with local auto dealers and trade associations, are suing Vermont to try to block the standard, which calls for a 30 percent reduction in the amount of carbon dioxide, or CO2, released by vehicles, starting in 2009 and becoming stricter through 2016.
"We still need 12 years from now, we're talking model year 2020," to develop full lines of compliant vehicles, he said.
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