The American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires stricter fuel efficiency standards for smaller cars, on an exponential curve. As a result, vehicles get more expensive as they get smaller. Manufacturers are making their previous designs larger to avoid costs / be able to sell at a lower price. Consumers care more about purchase price than mpg. The end result is a trend towards larger vehicles.
The solution is to either relax requirements on smaller vehicles, or strengthen requirements on larger vehicles - but this could affect “working” vehicles, like semi rigs and concrete mixers, which would lead to other economic issues.
yeah in France, they planned to tax more SUVs based on weight, but it seems some tricksters want to circumvent this by saying those are semi rigs since they are exempt… we’ll see…
It’s a silly rule, but a good explanation for what’s happening, together with the “security” argument.
I feel like it should be possible to define in law what “work vehicules” are and add a clause for that. But since that’s not the case, I don’t want to know about alllll the other rule that makes it so complicated.
The American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires stricter fuel efficiency standards for smaller cars, on an exponential curve. As a result, vehicles get more expensive as they get smaller. Manufacturers are making their previous designs larger to avoid costs / be able to sell at a lower price. Consumers care more about purchase price than mpg. The end result is a trend towards larger vehicles.
The solution is to either relax requirements on smaller vehicles, or strengthen requirements on larger vehicles - but this could affect “working” vehicles, like semi rigs and concrete mixers, which would lead to other economic issues.
yeah in France, they planned to tax more SUVs based on weight, but it seems some tricksters want to circumvent this by saying those are semi rigs since they are exempt… we’ll see…
It’s a silly rule, but a good explanation for what’s happening, together with the “security” argument.
I feel like it should be possible to define in law what “work vehicules” are and add a clause for that. But since that’s not the case, I don’t want to know about alllll the other rule that makes it so complicated.