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Re:Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants by MarkMc on Monday September 05, 2016 @01:45PM (#12431409)
> For full electric cars you hardly pay taxes because the government wants to stimulate this clean way of transportation.

It's interesting that Netherlands seems to assume all electric cars are green. But Singapore actually calculates the carbon emissions per km and finds the Tesla Model S to be very environmentally unfriendly: the Model S attracts a surcharge of $15,000 while the BMW i3 gets a rebate of $30,000 [1].

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/electric-car...

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Re:Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants by vic20forever on Monday September 05, 2016 @01:59PM (#12431468)
Tesla is contesting this [1].

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/lta-relookin...

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Re:Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants by NotSammyHagar on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @12:31AM (#12433673)
Yes, since electricity is generally as environmentally efficient if not much more so than gasoline, it should imply that a larger battery is even more efficient. This should be a mistake.
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