Parts Suppliers Call for Cleaner Cars, Splitting With Their Main Customers: Automakers<br />In an unusual joint statement, the suppliers said that “It is in the nation’s best interest”<br />that the United States continue to develop and manufacture “the cleanest and most efficient vehicles in the world.”<br />While they stopped short of directly criticizing automakers, which the parts suppliers rely<br />upon for business, they came down clearly on the side of stringent emissions rules.<br />The reason: Parts suppliers have a particular incentive to push for cleaner standards, experts say, because tougher emissions rules would spur automakers to fill their vehicles with new, more efficient technologies,<br />and the parts makers would profit from developing that gear.<br />MEMA signed Thursday’s statement together with four other groups<br />that represent auto suppliers: Advanced Engine Systems Institute, the Emission Control Technology Association, the Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association, and the Aluminum Association<br />In the debate over how quickly to make American cars pollute less, the nation’s auto-parts makers are now in open disagreement with the automakers<br />that buy the countless transmissions, turbochargers and other components that make up modern automobiles.
