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Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In my country, for electric cars, they raised limit (gross/max. weight) to 4250 kg. Probably by the car lobby.

According to the specs, the AWD trim has max. weight of 4238 kg.

So, no problem with the standard drivers license.

If only ~~Cyber~~Uglytruck gets the EU approval.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

In my country, for electric cars, they raised limit (gross/max. weight) to 4250 kg. Probably by the car lobby.

Also because, otherwise, electric workvans are impossible