I would hardly call being forced to make EVs a punishment.
Call it "white-collar punishment." It's not like they'll get an open-ended holding sentence in Rikers for stealing a backpack, the way kids in my neighborhood would. Or anything close to it.
No, for the VW execs it will be, at most: "OMG this is so brutal! My portfolio is going to take a big haircut over this! People aren't going to come to our dinner parties on Ibiza", etc.
Call it "white-collar punishment." It's not like they'll get an open-ended holding sentence in Rikers for stealing a backpack, the way kids in my neighborhood would. Or anything close to it.
No, for the VW execs it will be, at most: "OMG this is so brutal! My portfolio is going to take a big haircut over this! People aren't going to come to our dinner parties on Ibiza", etc.