Electric Vehicles

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US House Unveiled Plan to Charge $130 [Yearly] Fee for Electric Vehicles (www.bloomberg.com)

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This is more than the average fossil car owner pays in gas taxes, and really bad policy during a world fuel shortage.

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I quite like that idea, but would worry that home charging would leave too much road maintenance unfunded. Maybe a combination of a low flat EV fee and your fast charger tax.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno. Psychologically, buyers don’t like an upfront tax. It’s just how our monkey brains are.

…How about an EV tax proportional to vehicle mass, or maybe battery mass/capacity? With a cutoff for tiny, cheap EVs. This would tax commercial vehicles and ridiculous luxury EVs like the Hummer EV, but incentivize small EVs or plug in hybrids.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

We like to subsidize heavy trucks with our money and our lives.