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Re:An auto CEO came close to saying the right thing about he... by rnabel on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:51AM (#36042426)
It looks like the current road tax frameworks of many countries use either CO2 emissions or car price as a main factor for road tax, which presumably correlates with weight - except for EVs. Seems like at least the CO2 bit will have to change with EVs becoming more mainstream.
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Re:An auto CEO came close to saying the right thing about he... by mgbmtl on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:39AM (#36045913)
Montreal (and presumably inspired from elsewhere) are moving to car weight as a metric for pricing parking permits (begin of a trend in that direction, I think).

Although they do use different thresholds for EVs and ICEs, not to penalize EVs.

They mostly wanted to tackle the problem of lost space from larger cars, and would have taken car dimensions if the data was available, but apparently weight and size often correlate (previously they use car cylinders, but nowadays there are huge cars with tiny motors).

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