U.S. Tightens Car Mileage Rules, Part of Strategy to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
The new measure requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon for all the car models they sell by 2031.

The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per gallon, up from 35.1 miles per gallon. Selling electric vehicles and hybrids would help bring up the average mileage per gallon across their product lines.

  • Sconrad122@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Am I doing the math right on this? Assuming your unit of fee is pennies: a 2600 lb bmw i3 (one of the smallest evs on the US market) would cost $351.5 million dollars to register. Even my 40 lb bike, if it was charged, would cost $1280. I’m all about car ownership being more expensive, but this seems…extreme

    • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      5 months ago

      Why would you assume the fee unit is pennies? I assume you’d scale all of these values proportionally to the revenue needs. I think the road damage formula was to the fourth power of weight, not third though.

      • Sconrad122@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        Because it was the smallest unit of currency and the comment said the fees “should be” not “should be scaled by” or something to that effect. I first assumed it was dollars, but used pennies when it was obviously going to be too large. Idk, I guess that is where I went wrong, but it seemed like a reasonable assumption to make at the time that the formula was expressed in some denomination of currency