Because Tesla designs, manufactures, sells and services its own vehicles, it can operate more cost-efficiently and quickly incorporate customer feedback into production of the cars, it said.
The changes will affect how the agency checks rockets, satellites and space vehicles it buys from Russian manufacturers and will influence its prelaunching procedures.
The carmaker produces about half the vehicles it sells worldwide in Japan, a higher proportion than its domestic rivals.
It exports 70% of the vehicles it makes to more than 130 countries, each with its own regulatory requirements and consumer tastes.
Each manufacturer will have its own CAFE goal, based on the mix of vehicles it actually sells.
Like other electric vehicles, it has a battery.
Like all electric vehicles, it is eerily quiet.
Now closed to vehicles, it hosts arts and crafts fairs.
For applications like motor vehicles it really needs to be reduced to minutes.
Unlike Dok-Ing's current line of vehicles, it would not be warranted against detonating land mines.
It said the automaker was aware of 11 fuel leaks in vehicles it sold.
