in France, told The Irish Times: “There is already a close correlation between CO2 emissions and mass. If the mass tax targets heavy vehicles on the grounds that they consume more fuel and emit more CO2, then the tax is redundant because there is already the CO2 penalty. If it is a question of taxing a ‘heavy’ vehicle for externalities other than CO2 emissions – brake and tyre emissions, material consumption, congestion, no in-depth impact study has been carried out.
Some of that is down to increasing sales of electric cars, while some is down to improvements in fuel economy. Add SUVs back into the equation, and that improvement is cancelled out. According to the IEA, in the decade running up to 2020, global emissions from “conventional” cars fell by 350 megatonnes of CO2, but emissions from specifically SUVs rose by 500 megatonnes.
Both cars have seats for five, and large boots . However, the Passat has official CO2 emissions of 127g/km, while the Tiguan – same engine, same basic structure, same DSG automatic gearbox – has emissions of 145g/km.
Is tax the shite out of the plebs their only idea? Wouldn't mind either if revenue used for some half decent public transport system, but just evaporates in NGO makeworks
Electric cars are heavier. So it does not make much sense.
By weight and owner commercial need. So a jeep owned by landscape guarding business would be €280 and owned by D4 mum doing the school run €1000
The more tax we pay the less money we have to upgrade to more energy efficient homes and vehicles. Don't they ever come up with any proactive policies?
Greens are OUT OF CONTROL. Get them OUT
How about the governments stop trying to punish the population with ever higher taxes?
Batteries weigh quite alot so tax the SUV EV's!
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