Die Pariser Bürgermeisterin sagt, ihre Stadt habe zu viele SUVs und gebe den Wählern die Möglichkeit, die Parkgebühren für sie deutlich zu erhöhen. Sie hofft, dass die Abstimmung eine Botschaft an die Automobilhersteller senden wird, damit sie aufhören, „auf den Kauf immer größerer, teurerer, ressourcenfressenderer und umweltschädlicherer“ Fahrzeuge zu drängen.

by LudovicoSpecs

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  2. Europe is the land of small vehicles and mass transit for a reason. Medieval city layouts are not vehicle friendly.

  4. Until the USA changes the Cafe Standards, these behemoths are still gonna find their way to Europe. Fossil fuel/car companies have conspired to keep oil consumption up even when engine efficiency improves, by forcing cars to be ever bigger. Just look up any video on YouTube about why they CANT make small trucks anymore.

  5. Come to Alberta, Canada where every wannabe alpha male conspiracy theorist drives a jacked up vanity truck that billows smoke as a display of primitive mating prowess.

  6. Paris in 10 years:

    Why is nobody having more than 2 kids?!

  7. She is not banning SUVs but making cities walkable & cycle friendly so not everyone has to own a car to do basic things like buy grocery and work.

  8. Doesn’t France already have a plan to phase out ICE vehicles in the next 12-17 years?

  9. This is becoming developing world problem as well, these SUVs. Wealthy people in the developing world who can afford personal vehicles are switching to SUVs. Top sellers are either compact, cheap Sedan, likely destined for commercial use, or SUVs. I suspect this is due to major companies pushing existing SUV lines onto these markets, as well as the impression people get from watching travelling to America and likes, witnessing the proliferation of SUVs. This is crazy as the developing is extremely unsuitable for heavy, large vehicles like SUVs and soon, “sporty” trucks. The quality of their infrastructure is a lot worse so they would have to spend more on road maintenance. Their underdeveloped infrastructure also tend to be narrower, more space efficient inside their cities which should have made SUV less desirable.

  10. I hope they vote her out to send a message to leave people alone.

  11. Anne Hidalgo has made driving in Paris an utter misery.

    It’s already congested more often than not, and it’s going to be utter chaos with the Olympic Games next summer.

    Trying to blame it on SUVs is just trying to distract from everything else that’s wrong.

  12. Excellent, Paris is such a walkable/bikeable city, and we have some excellent public transportation. SUV are just such a pain in the ass and I don’t get why people use them in Paris.

  13. Interesting that the mayor is blaming auto companies for the decisions her citizens are making. If people didn’t want SUVs, they wouldn’t buy them and the car companies would stop making them.

  14. The problem is nobody knows what is an SUV anymore

    These are all gray lines now it’s gonna be really difficult to enforce

  15. Good, honestly the trend to ever larger vehicles is ridiculous. As an EV owner I have people make remarks to me about vehicles being heavier and causing more maintenance on roads but no one blinks an eye about the average size of an ICE vehicle doubling over the last couple decades.

  16. Currently, most people can’t really afford anything short of basic tiny vehicles when it comes to their next or first vehicle purchase. So 20 years from now, 50 years from now, I really hope simply for this reason that there are many less excessive vehicles around.

  18. SUVs in a city are for people compensating for something 🤏

  19. I live sort of near the Land Rover factory in Britain and when you go down that way you lose count of how many Land Rovers or Range Rovers you see. All bad drivers I’m sure

  20. Fuck France. Do something they don’t like – taxed. Do something they like – taxed.

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