Comment on Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs

• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, and it comes up a lot when people say EVs aren’t paying their fair share and should have increased registration costs. The biggest hit on road maintenance is big trucks, and it’s not even close. We are all subsidizing this industry.

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  • HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Diesel cars are 50kg heavier than EVs in general (maybe I can find the study again) and they’ve increased the most since 2012 in weight gained

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Plus they always give as an example, that e-hummer that weighs 9,000 lbs. that just shouldn’t exist. Meanwhile most EVs are 1/3 that weight

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep. No one wants ro talk about a real weight tax, because if they charged trucks their proportional share, shipping costs would go through the roof.

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  • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But what if we moved them onto a separate road, made of metal?

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thay would be crazy, they would all be running at different intervals. You would need some system to link all the cars together, with a singular engine. An Onomotive or something like that, we can figure out the name later.

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• Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A bicycle can’t move without someone sitting on it pedaling, so I think it’s fair to include the weight of the rider.

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