Since EVs are heavy, should be based on dimensions.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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Depends on what the goal is. Heavy vehicles do disproportionately more damage to the infrastructure.
They might want to encourage smaller, lighter cars, regardless of type. They certainly make small city EVs, as well as just encouraging walking, biking, public transportation, etc.
Everything which is related to the common space should be charged or even limited by their impact in the common space.
SUV's are bigger so use more space, are almost twice as likely to kill a pedestrian in a collision than other cars, interfere with the ability of other road users to spot danger sooner (because people in normal cars behind a SUV often are in a position too low to see the road beyond the SUV through its windows) and because of being heavier and less aerodinamically efficient consume more hence polute more (even the electric ones indirectly polute more because not all electricity is generated from renewals).
So it makes sense that SUVs get hit by significantly higher charges related to their impact in the common space or even limited in some places because they're much more dangerous to pedestrians and negativelly impact the safety of other road users.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
PARIS, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Paris aims to drive large sports utility vehicles (SUVs) out of its centre by hiking parking fees for heavy cars in the French capital, and it plans a citizens' vote on the proposal early next year.
After banning rental scooters in September in the wake of a citizen's vote, Paris will hold a local referendum on Feb. 4 about "the place of SUVs in the capital".
"We need to reduce the number and the size of cars in the city, that is why we will submit to a vote the question of how much space there should be for this type of vehicle in Paris," Deputy Mayor David Belliard, an ecologist, told Reuters.
Under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris has for years raised pressure on drivers by increasing parking costs and gradually banning diesel vehicles, while boosting the bicycle lane network in the congested capital.
In a few years, in a few months, they won't be welcome in Paris with this type of behaviour," Belliard said.
He said Paris also wanted car manufacturers to stop building this type of vehicle because they were too expensive, too polluting and unsuitable for cramped city centres.
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Good. Too bad it will never happen in the US. I'm sick and tired of these shitboxes that destroy visibility and kill people, always being operated by someone clueless (and usually single occupancy).
I dont expect parking fees to affect people who already buyva car that is not economically viable. It hits where it does not hurt.
Here's the thing: people don't make decision based on cost, but on what they feel what the cost is. For example: there are studies showing people underestimate the cost of car ownership by a factor of 2. They typically forget about the loss in value and the repair costs. Parking fees (if taken per occasion) are cost that people actually feel every day, making it more likely that they factor into their decision, maybe even more so than fuel costs.
They should drive out large cars before heavy cars.
I hope they don't come up with a superlight suv to defeat this. mostly because it would likely turn over easily.
Cars are already as light as they can reasonably be unless you get into something hyper specialized. And then you just have a tin can with wheels.
Unless they go full carbon fiber and titanium just as a middle finger to the weight tax/fee lol