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It makes sense that road and parking pricing should be proportional to the size and impact of your car. Hopefully this will encourage manufacturers to produce more smaller cars - it's getting somewhat hard to buy a small car these days. I'd love to have a Japanese-style Kei car.
Interesting to note: the turnout (5.6%) is even lower than when it was decided to ban e-scooters sharing systems (7.4%). Also note this only applies to vehicles from non-residents. And that parking in public spots is already very expensive in Paris; limited to a maximum of 6h, which will cost you up to 75€: https://www.paris.fr/pages/payer-son-stationnement-2129
> the turnout (5.6%) is even lower than when it was decided to ban electric scooters public sharing (7.4%). These things should really have a quorum requirement.
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> the turnout (5.6%) is even lower than when it was decided to ban electric scooters public sharing (7.4%). These things should really have a quorum requirement.
Most eligible voters are probably not personally affected and so didn't see a need vote. A quorum would make it effectively impossible to change anything.
As of now, France is importing more cars than it is exporting, and its traditional main rival - Germany - happens to be doing particularly well in the SUV sector.
Just a few months ago a French MEP called for introducing a special driver license for SUVs; German MEPs would want nothing of it, even the German Green Party opposed, dismissing the initiative as "nonsense".
So when "citing a 60% increase in SUV ownership over the last four years, Parisian officials say SUVs are ridiculous, dangerous, and needlessly polluting", it would be interesting to break down where these ridiculous SUVs are coming from, in order to dispel such suspicions.
The reality is that people like their SUVs. It doesn’t matter where in the world, SUVs are popular and growing in market share. Here’s the International Energy Agency on SUVs. https://www.iea.org/commentaries/as-their-sales-continue-to-...
SUVs are a lot bigger than typical European cars. Since people don't feel safe driving small cars around big cars the presence of SUVs causes an upwards pressure on vehicle size. That's an issue in cities where the roads and parking spaces are built to fit vehicles from 20 years ago, causing a lot of frustration for everyone. Which creates the paradox that SUVs both cause people to dislike them and to buy them, for r…
My point is it's very hard nowadays to say what's a SUV. According to the article, French authorities decided purely on weight, which is only semi-related to SUV-ness of a vehicle and might include non-SUV cars, especially with heavy diesel engines, but exclude my petrol Honda CR-V 3rd gen. Why didn't they call it "triple cost for heavier vehicles" instead?
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tiny EVs are going to be very popular in europe
EVs in Europe and the US are on the downward trend at the moment. I’m not entirely sure why, maybe they are still too expensive.
That means from 1.1.2025, for passenger cars 93,6 g CO2/km average (which is impossible with ICE-only cars of current sizes and technology) and the manufacturer pays a fine for anything above that. But that can be relaxed if they sell at least 25% EVs (0 g CO2/km), and higher percentage of those means higher permissible average emmisions. So the manufacturers will be highly motivated to sell more EVs and we can expect all the big manufacturers will hit the 25% quite soon.
Then from 1.1.2030 this goes down to 49,5 g CO2/km and at that point ICEs are goint to be increasingly niche. From 1.1.2035 the limit is 0 g CO2/km.
Should be added that this is for SUVs coming from outside of Paris and doesn't affect residents. Positive development nonetheless.
Let's have a vote of only the residents about an issue that only affects the non-residents...
The status-quo (all you can eat SUV use in cities) has a big impact on everyone using the city. Yet no one voted for that...
Actually they voted for tripling the cost of heavy vehicles. The size is not even mentioned. It's a shortsighted move, since it incentives using gasoline cars in cities and disincentivies Hybrid and even EVs due to their weight. There is nothing in the rules specific to SUVs.
Actually only EVs above 2 Metric Tons are concerned, which is fair IMO.
Should be added that this is for SUVs coming from outside of Paris and doesn't affect residents. Positive development nonetheless.
Should be added that this is for SUVs coming from outside of Paris and doesn't affect residents. Positive development nonetheless.
Let's have a vote of only the residents about an issue that only affects the non-residents...