https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eu-cave-in-on-vehicle-trade-rules-will-cost-european-lives-as-us-pick-up-trucks-flood-into-europe

https://lemmy.ml/post/35089940

As part of its trade war surrender to Trump, the EU has promised to lower its vehicle safety standards - Lemmy

Lemmy

Bring in vehicle weight, vehicle displacement, and engine displacement annual fees at the same time.

Want an asshole vehicle? Fine, pay extra for your externalities of a heavy vehicle, large engine, and/or large vehicle.

Isn’t that already handled by fuel taxes?

Hard to say, I don’t know how EU ETD minimums and individual member states works.

That also wouldn’t cover any externality costs from something like a heavy or large EV.