<i>I would hardly call being forced to make EVs a punishment.</i><p>Call it &quot;white-collar punishment.&quot;  It&#x27;s not like they&#x27;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.<p>No, for the VW execs it will be, at most: &quot;OMG this is so <i>brutal!</i> My portfolio is going to take a big haircut over this! People aren&#x27;t going to come to our dinner parties on Ibiza&quot;, etc.