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Paris residents voted on Sunday to triple parking charges for sports utility vehicles (SUVs) on environmental and safety grounds. The referendum asked whether fees in public car parks should be tripled for heavy SUVs, raising parking fees for one hour in central Paris to €18 ($19.4) instead of the current €6, and €12 instead of €4 in the suburbs. The higher fee will apply to combustion and hybrid models weighing 1.6 tons or more and electric models weighing two tons or more. Around 1.3 million residents of the capital took part in the vote titled “More or less SUV in Paris?” According to the p…

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