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Porsche officially starts legal process against London's congestion charge

Feb 19th 2008 11:52AM - 9 Comments

We've already seen Porsche make its case for an exemption from EU emissions rules. With the new, higher congestion charge announce the other day for London, it's no surprise that Porsche is fighting back there, too. It's just hard to be a car company ...

Porsche gets detailed in attack on London's congestion charge

Feb 23rd 2008 10:10AM - 18 Comments

Once the new London congestion charges were officially announced earlier this month, Porsche started a legal process against the Transport for London group (TfL is behind the c-charge). London officials responded to the threat and in response ...

Congestion charges to expand beyond London

Jan 31st 2007 4:17PM - 0 Comments

Since 2003, London, England has had a congestion charge for drivers who want to go into the central part of the city. Drivers have to £8 per day to drive in the area, in an attempt to discourage cars from coming into Central London, and use ...

Porsche FTW - London scraps 25 congestion charge

Jul 8th 2008 9:34AM - 3 Comments

The battle over a proposed £25 Congestion Charge increase that would have been socked to big, dirty vehicles entering London is over. Porsche was the lead opponent of this fee increase, and announced the win on its Judicial Review website. I ...

Clean Green Cars suggests partnership for a sensible Congestion Charge

May 6th 2008 5:35PM - 2 Comments

With pro-congestion charge London mayor Ken Livingstone on the way out, there are a lot of questions about what happens next regarding the city's vehicle laws. At least one company, NICE, thinks electric car sales will increase under incoming mayor ...

Mayor of London bashed for new congestion charge

Feb 20th 2008 12:41PM - 0 Comments

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is being condemned by drivers' associations, residents, car companies and local business for the new plans for London's congestion charge, the £25 charge for drivers of cars with CO2 emissions over 225g/km ...

Congestion charges would lead to *more* driving, RAC Foundation says

Mar 14th 2007 12:04PM - 0 Comments

The RAC Foundation (a UK organization dedicated to "protecting the interest of the motorist") doesn't think congestion charges, like those in effect in downtown London, will help reduce driving, especially shopping trips, in the rest of the country. ...

Citron's congestion-charge-beating lineup

Aug 9th 2007 8:03PM - 2 Comments

With a new possible increase in London's Congestion Charge being discussed, Citroën is reminding people that there are "No fewer than 23 models in Citroën's current line-up could become exempt from the London's Congestion Charge, if Mayor ...

Stockholm launches Congestion Charge

Aug 2nd 2007 5:29PM - 2 Comments

The Congestion Charge is a toll that must be paid in order to drive in a city centre. The most famous is in Central London, where it's managed by a sophisticated system of cameras that read the vehicles' license plates. It isn't cheap, either, with ...

London's Congestion Charge will increase CO2 emissions?

Apr 12th 2008 7:54PM - 18 Comments

We don't want to take sides on London's Congestion Charge, but we are keenly interested in what the charge will mean for the environment and motorists. Ken Livingstone claims that the charge is intended to reduce congestion and CO2 emissions while ...

London may abandon plan for CO2 based congestion charge

Dec 20th 2007 10:56AM - 10 Comments

A year ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone announced plans to revamp the congestion charge system for the central part of the city. The heart of the changes was to go from a single £8 per day flat rate for all vehicles to a system where drivers ...

RMIF: London Congestion Charge should not be based on emissions

Aug 10th 2007 2:36PM - 3 Comments

The consultation period on London Mayor Ken Livingstone's revised congestion charge plan starts today. Getting in an opening salvo, the non-executive chairman of the Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF), Alec Murray, says straight-up that the ...

Toyota Aygo, Yaris and Prius exempt from revised London Congestion Charge

Feb 13th 2008 1:56PM - 8 Comments

It didn't take long for automakers to respond to the official announcement yesterday about the changes to the London Congestion Charge. Now that cars that emit less than 120 grams of CO2 per kilometer will be exempted from the charges that go into ...

Lexus touts their GS 450h in response to London's Congestion Charges

Apr 6th 2008 10:33AM - 4 Comments

Click on the image to enlarge Lexus would like to remind drivers who frequent the city of London that the GS450h is a credible sports sedan which falls well below the maximum penalty which will be in effect as part of the upcoming Congestion Charge. ...

London Deputy Mayor speaks in NYC about congestion charge policy

May 23rd 2007 11:39AM - 1 Comment

Last week, as part of New York City's work on a congestion charges for parts of Manhattan, the Deputy Mayor of London, Nicky Gavron, spoke at a forum sponsored by the Drum Major Institute (DMI) in New York. Also present at the forum were New York ...

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