The story you linked to was about charging more for parking large vehicles. The type of vehicle that are a bit too big for our current standard parking lot spacing. The possibility that Australian councils would charge more to park them with a reference to Paris that has introduced increased parking fees for heavier vehicles which would include some hybrids and electric vehicles.
For Paris: The higher prices affects petrol, diesel, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles weighing more than 1600kg, electric vehicles weighing more than 2000kg,
