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Originally Posted by Traum

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.

sheesh it's like they made it complicated to confuse the hell out of you on purpose. thanks for the clarification. i do park in my garage so i'm safe, i wasn't aware of that caveat, but my vehicle would most likely be exempt