A move in Illinois to increase the annual EV registration fee to $1000 is alarming electric vehicle owners, but EV owners must see this in the context of the bigger picture. How are the roads paid for? When and how will electric vehicle owners pay their fair share of the…
The North Carolina Legislature is considering SB710, Fair Share Contribution for Elect. Vehicles., which would enact a $100 per year annual registration fee for electric vehicles. It’s a fairly straight-forward law: SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑52 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: “(c) At the time of an initial…
There are 10 (?or more?) states around the U.S. who have either enacted electric vehicle taxes, or are considering them. The observation is that electric vehicle owners are not paying anything into the transportation funds, because the current funding method is the gasoline tax. Electric vehicles don’t consume gasoline, or…
On Tuesday (Jan 8, 2013) Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (a.k.a. “Governor Ultrasound”) proposed to eliminate the gasoline tax, raise sales taxes, raise some other taxes, in an effort to shore up Virginia’s transportation budget. In part the causative factor is the rise of fuel efficient hybrid and electric vehicles, and…
Who pays for the highway system? In the U.S. the roads are paid for, primarily, by gasoline taxes, but that’s by no means the pattern around the world for highway transportation funds. Electric vehicles do not consume gasoline, so therefore electric vehicle owners aren’t paying into the funding of the…
A law before the Arizona legislature would collect a $.01 per mile tax from electric car owners. The tax would go to pay for build and maintaining roads. Currently highway funds come primarily from gasoline taxes and that electric car owners do not pay gasoline taxes, and therefore do not…
Proposed laws in Arizona and elsewhere would collect additional taxes from owners of electric cars, is it too soon to start collecting road use fees from electric car owners? Pop quiz: Who pays for building and maintaining the highway system? It’s largely paid for via gasoline taxes. Another pop quiz:…
