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Re:The success of EVs is massively underreported by mschuster91 on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @10:11AM (#40064873)
> It taxes gasoline cars older than 2006 (so 18+ years old) and diesel cars older than 2018 (so 6 years old).

Well, very few people drive such old gasoline cars (outside of historic car collectors)... but a 6-12 year old diesel? Many people drive these.

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Re:The success of EVs is massively underreported by oblio on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:37PM (#40069819)
Yeah, but it's not their fault that most of the companies selling diesel cars lied and are continuing to lie about their emissions.

The EU is especially failing on this front, VW should have been caught year before it was.

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