[exnavy]

We have two vehicles, 2013 Buick encore for the wife, all the bells and you know. $186 annual registration. My 1997 ford ranger is $64 per year. My kids have newer cars and trucks, 50 percent or more than we pay. Something’s gotta give, government cannot keep milking we the people.

[Tell It Right]

In Alabama at our annual registration (colloquially referred to as "renewing our car tags"), I pay a $200 EV fee for the EV car to account for the fact that throughout the year I don't pay gas taxes on that car. IMHO that's a reasonable fee for me to pay my portion of road upkeep. I don't pay that fee when renewing the car tag for the ICE pickup because it's assumed I pay gas taxes throughout the year to drive it.

A tax per kWh for road-side charging also seems reasonable to make it fair among EV drivers and ICE drivers. Though the road-side charging is usually a smaller portion of the miles driven compared to charging at home.