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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by cellularmitosis on Sunday November 22, 2020 @02:50AM (#25175783)
Is it known if this is purely a weight issue, or does weight distribution make a difference? If a large truck were equipped with twice as many tires at half the PSI, what difference would that make?

I’ve seen weight limit signs on certain roads, I wonder if instead they should be PSI limits?

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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by berkes on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:07AM (#25175836)
I'd imagine a 20 tire truck of 1tonne roughly equals 5 4-tire cars of 200kg.

So that would mean the first still has to pay 5x the tax of the latter.

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