As I understand it, the pollution charge would only apply if:
- you require an overnight street parking pass
- the vehicle in question falls into the Tier 2 (200 - 225 g CO2/km) or Tier 3 (225g+ CO2/km) categories
My googling skillz suck, but I did manage to find the following CO2 emission info for the current crop of Honda vehicles:
174 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Fit
189 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Civic Coupe
186 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Civic Sedan
167 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Civic Hatchback
223 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Civic Type R
170 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Accord Sedan
117 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Accord Hybrid
115 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Insight Hybrid
36 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid
181 g/km of Co2 for the Honda HR-V
180 g/km of Co2 for the Honda CR-V
265 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Passport
266 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Pilot
248 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Odyssey
269 g/km of Co2 for the Honda Ridgeline
With the CoV pollution Tier 2 starting at 200g CO2/km, it means only the bolded vehicles will get slapped with the pollution charge (the red ones are in Tier 3 with the $1k annual charge). I'd expect similarly sized vehicles from other manufacturers to be exempted as well. But if your vehicle falls into Tier 2 or 3 and you park on the street, it is an annual charge, and you will rack up $10k over 10 yrs from the pollution charge alone. And then there'll also be the permit fee itself. Past recommendations from the City suggests that the $45/yr fee will only be an introductory fee, and the charge would be bumped up over the years. There are rumours that the increase will be significant. Personally, I haven't been able to find any proof of that yet -- but that really just means I haven't found anything yet. Low income people will also reportedly have the overnight parking permit fee reduced to $5.
If you park in the garage or on the driveway, then you won't need the overnight parking permit, and you won't get hit by the pollution charge as well.
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Originally Posted by GLOW
I'm trying to understand the emissions charge, they're trying to do this annually, not 1 time correct?
so if it's $1k, after 10 years i would have paid $10k on a 2022+ ICE car?
wouldn't that just drive up the price for older cars prior to 2022?
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