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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.
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Charging hybrids halve as much when they can run on electricity most of the time seems less than ideal.
Also most usage based wear and tear comes from trucks anyway. Meaning charging light vehicles isn't nessecary.
You could just move the gas tax to a vehicle tax for road existence and upkeep to heavy vehicles usage.
Why don't they just tax by amount of electricity charged. Prolly naive, but it's similar to the tax on gas and solves exactly the problem that is brought up with flat payments per car per year.
Weight times distance travelled would be the fairest, but tricky to implement.
Could switch entirely to a tire tax. Semi's pay most, big vehicles regardless of ev/ICE pay more due to large tires, light vehicles pay least due to small cheap tires etc. Probably not a perfect solution, but it feels like it could get close
Because you cannot know what it is used for when delivering it to the customer. And chipping every ev and charging by usage isn't realistic.
That was a great advantage for fuel powered vehicles.
Doesn't mean this isn't a wholly stupid implantation.
They could track the mileage on the car and charge a per mile rate but it does come at a loss of privacy. Mandating that can be an issue. How much you travel every year is definitely information a lot of people would love to sell and buy.
On that same note though, some insurers (mine) offer a discount for lower yearly mileage but to get it, you need to offer up your mileage, but it is optional.
Conservatives do that. It’s unfortunate.