It’s just another line item for annual vehicle registration.
Texas to bill EV drivers $200 starting 9/1
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The worst when it comes to impact on road conditions is large trucks. There's a segment of interstate in my area where trucks aren't allowed, and the road conditions are really good. Then the segment begins where trucks are allowed and the surface gets really bad.
Makes sense though. They put considerably more weight and cause exponentially more damage relative to weight.
A flat fee of $200 is in no way a "fair" share. ICE drivers pay 20c per gallon. So $200 would equal an ICE driver buying 1000 gallons of fuel and at the national overall average of 25.4 mpg driving 25,400 miles, more than the majority drive per year. So no, $200 isn't a "fair" share it is an inflated share.
The blue state transplant geniuses are also doing away with the annual vehicle inspection. That's how they should be collecting from EV's based on annual odometer reading. I drive 4000 miles annually, 160 gallons, $32 fuel tax. If I had an EV I'd be paying a little over 6 times as much as the ICE. No, we don't need blue state systems and people, this idiotic EV tax being one example.
The blue state transplant geniuses are also doing away with the annual vehicle inspection. That's how they should be collecting from EV's based on annual odometer reading. I drive 4000 miles annually, 160 gallons, $32 fuel tax. If I had an EV I'd be paying a little over 6 times as much as the ICE. No, we don't need blue state systems and people, this idiotic EV tax being one example.
Likely the initial $7500 was factored into what you paid used, otherwise why buy used?
I'm not so sure. Fire departments might like a piece of that for cleanup efforts.
Are FD's funded from fuel taxes?
Registration taxes aren’t fuel taxes and take active legislative efforts to separate from the general fund
Everything from the Governors office building to government employee pay has gotten funded from actual “gas tax” a few areas have laws to stop this but they aren’t always effective, as an example the EV fee unlike the registration fee goes into a different bucket here in Wisconsin, even though we supposedly require dmv fees to go in the road fund. Our road fund is sometimes used for “not exactly road related” outlays as well.
Ill gladly pay $200/year to save $400/mo and not have to drive a gasser.
And this is why we get rediculous unnecessary fees.
$200 is only a start, it will keep going up until you aren’t glad to pay it, might take 10 years but .gov wants to get a lot of cars off the road.
There are 400+ gas car fires everyday, nobody seems to care.
Lol, they aren't heavier unless we're talking oddities like the new hummer ev.
While I agree, we also do need to consider our nations trash infrastructure and how to fix that.
We could start by voting out individuals who talk about roads, charge new taxes for roads but then proceed to not use the money to fix roads or insist on wasting it repeatedly repairing new roads in a specific country instead of having a plan to address all areas of the state.
Fool me once scenario, charging more taxes for roads never forces anyone to budget repairs. (Based on 40 years of observing the same song and dance increasing taxes but not addressing anything)
35,000 miles, lol
in Wisconsin EVs average 5000 miles a year.
Would be interesting to see the spread of driving distances for Texas EV owners by model.
I highly doubt any rural leaf owner drives anywhere near that distance as it would be physically impossible on the small battery.
And only subsidized for the “right buyers”
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The loss in resale is pretty close between hybrid vs electric, but only one is heavily subsided by the tax payer.
Texas is a high mileage state, many of my coworkers commute that distance or more, I know one personally who bought an EV and he drives around 40miles one way to work.
35mpg on the highway yes, less idling and in traffic etc, but i drive an econobox, and f150 or the like isnt going to get that kind of mileage. I average 25000+ per year on my car.
I have ran up 84,000 miles in mine over 63 months. Which is about 16,000 miles per year but we use it for everything we can since it costs 2cents a mile and goes 30,000+ miles between oil changes.
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