There is nothing in the rules specific to SUVs.
I am not even sure using a large EV is better than a small ICE once you take into account other forms of pollution, road damage, congestion (which increases pollution as well as other effects) and safety issues.
> I am not even sure using a large EV is better than a small ICE once you take into account other forms of pollution, road damage, congestion
Where did I mention large EV? I'm mentioning a normal EV and comparing that to an equally sized ICE. Why would anyone compare a large EV with a small ICE? It's a strange and dishonest comparison.
Large cars are not significantly longer (they are higher and fatter) and congestions does not occur due to this car size. Cars need to keep a large distance between each other for safety. Even a small ICE car will very quickly emit more than the production of an average EV car ever could.
In a city there is the added benefit that EVs are silent and do not emit locally which matters.
Running would depend on prices of petrol and electricity. Have you checked what they are in Paris? Overall costs depends on that and purchase cost and usage. An ICE car is cheaper for me because I do very low mileage (a few thousand mile a year, almost none in heavy traffic), I imagine it would be very different for commuters.
> Why would anyone compare a large EV with a small ICE? It's a strange and dishonest comparison.
Because the whole point of the charges is to encourage people to use a lighter car. The weight difference between small and large cars is far bigger than that between EV and ICE of the same size.
You have also not considered other forms of pollution in use (you mentioned production, which is another issue) or road damage and safety (which is directly related to weight).
> Large cars are not significantly longer (they are higher and fatter)
Really not longer? Current Range Rovers are about 5 meters long, that is about 20% longer than typical hatchback. Wider also causes congestion as people need to slow to pass each other more often.
They might as well incentive people to use that instead of cars.
How is it off ICE? It's slowly moving in the right direction, but very slowly indeed. New ICE will be produced and sold even in Europe for another 10 years and afterwards they have a long lifetime.
My fathers generation was, most people were very concerned at the idea of there being no more ICE vehicles on the road, as if something important was being taken away from them from a cultural standpoint.
Someone needs to develop tyres that are made of healthier materials.
The recuperation is pretty strong and there is absolutely no need to ever break inside a city, except in rare emergency situations.
Good point. We certainly have the technology. Currently tyres are half natural rubber and half plastic. They could be made 100% rubber, perhaps with some drawbacks. Maybe an engineer can comment on that, I would be very interested to know why exactly the non natural rubber is needed.
I know that Continental has a research project to make the natural rubber out of dandelion. But even those tyres still have 50% plastic rubber.
If it's a dandelion plantation it can be done in central Europe, for example.
Should not occur in EVs because braking is not necessary.
> Tyre dust
Fine. In cities this is one of the easiest problems to solve, since most of it is washed out into drainage pipes and the waste water can be effectively filtered (although this is not done in most places yet).
Fortunately I don't live in a city anymore so I don't have to put up with these rules.
For an EV most of the emissions are created during production, so the less production the better. It's best to have one sufficiently flexible car, even if it's bigger, since that minimises production emissions.
Also the large car is not just used to take the kids on vacations, but typically all the time.
Still in towns like Paris you should favor bicycle or public transportation. You can also have a smaller EV and rent a larger one for the long trips.