House lawmakers made public a massive transportation bill Sunday that would impose new fees on electric vehicles as gasoline prices surge following the Iran war.
This is more than the average fossil car owner pays in gas taxes, and really bad policy during a world fuel shortage.
Another response by states to backfill reductions in gas tax collections has been to implement a tax on EV charging stations. States like Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, and Oklahoma impose a tax per kilowatt-hour distributed by charging stations. While this added user fee may help equalize treatment between combustion engines and EVs, because many users charge their EVs at home, these taxes can fail to fully account for EV road use.
The registration fees in your link are all annual registrations, not one-time events, which is in line with what I’ve experienced and heard about. In my state it’s roughly equivalent to driving 15k miles/year in a 30 mpg average gas vehicle or 10k miles/year in a 20 mpg vehicle.
Most states I know of have an EV tax already
It looks like there is a charging tax in very few states, but it has problems.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/electric-vehicle-ev-taxes/
The registration fees in your link are all annual registrations, not one-time events, which is in line with what I’ve experienced and heard about. In my state it’s roughly equivalent to driving 15k miles/year in a 30 mpg average gas vehicle or 10k miles/year in a 20 mpg vehicle.
Ah, my bad. Thanks!
looks like they could try a nationwide tax on all people who EVs somehow.