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Fisker Achieves 112 MPG, 51 g/km in TUV testing

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Now we know where Fisker got their original 50 Mile Electric/250 Mile Extended Range estimates they have used since day 1.

-- Fab.
 
Holy Cow that's strict :-/ We are so spoiled in the US. If we had to pay anything near that much tax based on CO2 emissions, the SUV would pretty much disappear overnight from American roads (which would not be a bad thing necessarily).

You can still get the tax break if the Fisker is your company car as long as the emissions are under 100 G/Km? That seems an odd loophole, but whatever works, right?

-- Fab.
 
Dutch said:
- And finally there is a tax which you pay if the car is paid for by your company (the company you work for or, as in my case, the company you own). If you drive the car for more than 500 km privately per year, it is considered wage and you have to add a certain percentage of the value of the new car to your income (which means paying more income taxes). Every year again!
Again depending on C02-output the percentage can be 25, 20, 14 or 0. The last percentage is when the car has a CO2-output of 49 grams or less. The Karma misses this by 2 grams now, which means it falls in the 14%-category. With a price of 115.000 euro, this means adding 16.100 euro to your income every year, thus paying 8370 euro extra taxes every year (at 52%, the high rate I'm paying).
Wouldn't this last tax category diminish every year as the car's value gets less as the car gets older? The car registration fees in California are similar in that a portion of the fee is based on the car's resale value which goes down each year. The overall amount is much much lower than what you have to pay (around 1%) but there is no exemption for clean cars.

-- Fab.
 
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