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> For full electric cars you hardly pay taxes because the government wants to stimulate this clean way of transportation. It's interesting that Netherlands see
by MarkMc 10y ago
> For full electric cars you hardly pay taxes because the government wants to stimulate this clean way of transportation.
It's interesting that Netherlands seems to assume all electric cars are green. But Singapore actually calculates the carbon emissions per km and finds the Tesla Model S to be very environmentally unfriendly: the Model S attracts a surcharge of $15,000 while the BMW i3 gets a rebate of $30,000 [1].
[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/electric-car-tesla-slapped-with-15000-tax-surcharge http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/electric-car...
- vic20forever 10y agoTesla is contesting this [1]. [1] http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/lta-relooking-case-of-tesla-electric-car-slapped-with-15000-carbon-surcharge http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/lta-relookin...
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoYes, since electricity is generally as environmentally efficient if not much more so than gasoline, it should imply that a larger battery is even more efficient. This should be a mistake.