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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 11 points 10 months ago

This limit needs to be instituted at a country level.

For example now that the Volkswagen up/Skoda citigo/seat Mii has been put out of production, there isn't a single car made by all the brands of the Volkswagen group that's shorter than 4 meters.

[-] octatron@lmy.drundo.com.au 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I would love this in Australia, all the private school soccer mums would revolt!

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

So they made having an SUV a money flex?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It already is?

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago
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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Good. They are about as expensive as normal car park fees in Amsterdam.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fuck that, the fine should be a billion times higher, and it should cover EVERY car. In existence. All of them. Everywhere. Personally I want to see a full scale global ban on motor vehicles. I am also perfectly certain that it will happen any day now.

[-] Fallenwout@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The prices will apply to vehicles weighing more than 1.6 tonnes with a combustion engine or hybrid vehicles, and more than 2 tonnes for electric vehicles.

Bmw x2 xDrive25e is a hybrid weighing 1800kg.

Bmw x2 sDrive18i is a petrol weighing 1500kg.

Both have exactly the same petrol engine. The plugin hybrid car, despite being cleaner, falls under the new parking law while the pure petrol one does not. Seems like they didn't thought this through, and it is (again) bullshit to do this in the name of climate. They just want money.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 10 months ago

You can't make an overly specific limit or car makers would adjust the specs just enough to pass the check.

If they had an exception or higher weight for hybrids, then SUVs like the Jeep renegade "hybrid" with their tiny 800 wh batteries would abuse the higher weight limit

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