Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax

Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by kortilla on Saturday November 21, 2020 @06:17PM (#25173474)

A fuel truck that refuels most gas stations in the US is something like 40 tonnes so it’s not rare at all.

As long as the roads are built to sustain those trucks the cars are negligible. So until cars are the big wear item, moving people to bikes is pointless from a road wear perspective.

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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by gameswithgo on Saturday November 21, 2020 @08:23PM (#25174066)

i love bikes and there are many reasons to get people on them, but assuming the 4th power claim is correct you are right. road damage isn’t a reason. math checks out.

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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by tertius on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:54PM (#25174534)

How many car miles per large truck mile is driven?

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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by Godel_unicode on Saturday November 21, 2020 @11:59PM (#25175056)

Looks like about 10x car miles per truck mile. So it's a rounding error in terms of road damage, it's trucks by a landslide.

https://www.bts.gov/content/us-vehicle-miles

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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by kortilla on Sunday November 22, 2020 @04:40PM (#25181354)

It’s a nice real world example of big O :)

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