• rchive@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Why do they have different standards, anyway? A vehicle is a vehicle, sort of, when it comes to emissions.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure what parent is after exactly.

      Body in frame is an older way of making cars but it’s far easier/cheaper to make thos heavy duty and modular (e.g. an f250 can be a pickup, tow truck, ambulance, dump truck…)

      Unibody is more modern.

      Most people can live with a unibody truck (Maverick,Ridgeline,Colorado).

      I don’t thing there’s causation between unibody and body on frame as far as fuel consumption is concerned.

      We’d need a mechanism that incentives smaller vehicles without impacting the services relying on the heavy duty vehicles…

      A Maverick starting at like $24k and an f150 at $35k isn’t enough…