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Drago

Drago

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My proposal for a new car tax regime. Tax is determined on a formula thus;

Vehicle Unladen Mass in KG ÷ 0-60 time in seconds = the Dq.

Therefore the heaver a vehicle is, or the faser it is, the bigger the Dq number and the more they pay in car tax. This incentivises drivers to choose a lighter or lower performance vehicle.
 

icowden

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Surrey
My proposal for a new car tax regime. Tax is determined on a formula thus;
Vehicle Unladen Mass in KG ÷ 0-60 time in seconds = the Dq.
Therefore the heaver a vehicle is, or the faser it is, the bigger the Dq number and the more they pay in car tax. This incentivises drivers to choose a lighter or lower performance vehicle.
It's fatally flawed. It would push people away from EVs and back to polluting ICE cars.
 

roubaixtuesday

self serving virtue signaller
It's fatally flawed. It would push people away from EVs and back to polluting ICE cars.

You could just up fuel tax to compensate for that, keep the whole thing revenue neutral if you like.

Very importantly, it incentivises away from behemoth BEVs, which are every bit as locally environmentally damaging as their ICE equivalents, and also significantly worse than modest BEVs globally, due to the huge embedded carbon in their manufacture.
 
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