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So sounds like it's weight based, which makes sense I think
Yeah, weight is really the best method.
Right, just until you realize that 1.6 tons for a ICE car is basically a medium size car (my Scenic score 1.4 tons for example) and 2 tons exclude a lot of electric cars (for example 3 out of 4 Tesla)
1.6 tons is quite frankly an insane weight for a vehicle to transport an 80kg human around. That is 20 times the weight of what you want to transport, not to mention the volume overhead and required space on the road including safety distances.
As long as you are alone, I agree. But if you have a family a somewhat bigger car is not that wasted and the 1.6 tons limit cover a lot of cars that can be used by a family.
If they really wanted to do something for the environment, like they justified the misure, they should have not put a limit on the EV (at least for now) and they should have used the engine capacity or power.
If anything people had bigger families in the past but somehow the capacity per car weight has gone down significantly, both for people and cargo.
Last time I was in France (4 years ago, before Covid) it was not uncommon to see families with 3 children, so I don't know... maybe there are not that many in Paris...
Sounds about right. Western and Central Europe is aging rapidly. I doubt Paris is much of an exception to that rule.
I guess the car industry did not have any pressure to not make heavy as fuck cars until now. If this takes off across the continent, that will push down car weights a bit at least.
The car I had before I went car-free weighed 1.3 tons and was big enough to sleep in with 2 people on a real mattress, or to comfortably carry 5 people with their luggage, or transport a fridge.
Wouldn't it make more sense to base it on length and width? I'd assume there's already various taxes on fuel consumption, but in parking, length and width are what actually matters.
Weight matters to the maintenance of the parking spaces too.
I'd assume that lack of space is a lot more critical than maintenance costs in Paris.
Which metric to use is also related to how they are going to enforce it. Surely they wonβt weigh cars. Itβs more realistic to base it on makes.
Since they say that the SUVs are "bad for the environment" I would have used the engine displacement or power.
That would do nothing to stop giant EVs, which are just as bad for taking up huge amounts of space.
Wait, if we talk about taking up huge amount of space, using the weight does not make any sense: a Renault Espace or an Audi A6 are bigger than a my Scenic but they weight the same (some models anyway).
It's also size and height of the hood.