• gian @lemmy.grys.it
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    9 months ago

    As long as you are alone, I agree. But if you have a family a somewhat bigger car is not that wasted and the 1.6 tons limit cover a lot of cars that can be used by a family.
    If they really wanted to do something for the environment, like they justified the misure, they should have not put a limit on the EV (at least for now) and they should have used the engine capacity or power.

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      9 months ago

      If anything people had bigger families in the past but somehow the capacity per car weight has gone down significantly, both for people and cargo.

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        9 months ago

        If anything people had bigger families in the past

        Last time I was in France (4 years ago, before Covid) it was not uncommon to see families with 3 children, so I don’t know… maybe there are not that many in Paris…

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          9 months ago

          The current fertility rate for France in 2024 is 1.847 births per woman, a 0.05% decline from 2023

          Sounds about right. Western and Central Europe is aging rapidly. I doubt Paris is much of an exception to that rule.