New Jersey Introduces Annual EV Fee, Punishing Owners Who Go Green

Inside EVs ^ | Apr 2, 2024 | Tom Moloughne

[volare737]

Don’t forget more expensive for insurance.

[DeplorablePaul]

Recall that the development of nuclear energy was hamstrung by what to do with nuclear waste. I think EV manufacturing should be curtailed until there’s plan to handle the disposal of the giant EV batteries.

[Lee N. Field]

< Nelson>Ha ha!< /Nelson>

Statists gotta state.

(I'm not anti EV at all. Interesting tech, just with its own peculiar plusses and minuses. And won't do what the innumerate true believers in "Climate Change!(R)" think it will.)

[V_TWIN]

“more expensive for insurance”

When your ev spontaneously combusts in your garage and burns your house down who do you call first, your homeowners insurance company or your auto owners?

[smokingfrog]

We will pave the roads using recycled EV tires. They eat them up, so plenty of supply. (Don’t ask what tires are made from.)

[Red Badger]

They can be recycled. It’s not cheap, nor environmentally friendly. But it can be done.

Solid state batteries won’t need recycling nearly as often................

[catman67]

Saw this coming a mile away!

Also, this being New Jersey, do they require someone to plug in your EV as well?

[fhayek]

It’s not that they hate EV’s, it’s that they LOVE taxes....

[brownsfan]

The masses have been made so devoid of the ability to think that they will grumble, and vote Dem anyway.

[combat_boots]

Also check the fees on EVs and Hybrids’ license plates.

[Red Badger]

This tax is actually a good one. Roads and bridges need constant repairs and that is what the gasoline taxes support. Theses EV drivers have to pay for that as well, it’s just done all at once instead of a gallon at a time............... 😎

[VideoPaul]

Get woke, go broke!

[rigelkentaurus]

Like others have said, roads require funding to be maintained. The funding source traditionally is based on who uses the roads and thereby the fuel tax was created. EVs are heavier than equivalent cars and wear roads more. EVs should be charged more than the equivalent gasoline / diesel powered vehicle if the principle of taxing based on usage.

[Qwapisking]

if the world cannot procure roadway materials it’s their own asphalt. “Soylent Green! it’s the new asphalt replacement...and ITS GREEN”.

[Red Badger]

Their ‘Free Ride’ is OVER, it’s time to pay the fiddler...............

[Red Badger]

Kinda mushy after about a week, though..................

[quantim]

At the rate these coal and NG powered cars are dropping in sales NJ won't get much in revenue anyway.  Added to that the drop-off in sales is on a exponential trajectory anyway - like earthquakes, orders of magnitude LOL.
 
And since Google acquired Youtube coverage has gotten even worse.  I made and posted the below video with a prescient and humorous dialogue, some 13 years ago and was shadowbanned some 50 hours later.  They also made the crystal clear video rather grainy, I hate them.

BTW, I was 100% correct but you have to click my 'creator page' for the video:

Electric cars for dummies

[fhayek]

I understand, and I get it. You see, I live in New York State. We have gasoline taxes, and tolls, and mileage use taxes, and vehicle registration fees - and you can still lose the fillings in your teeth driving on our roads. Sure you need taxes to maintain your roads, but the people in charge are such poor managers of the taxpayer’s money, that they will squander it on non-transportation pet projects, and then when the roads and bridges are practically crumbling away, they will float a bond issue to ‘fix them’. So yes, tax the EV’s, but I just am skeptical of new taxes wherever they arise.

[ComputerGuy]

All that virtue shouldn’t come for free. And no, I don’t feel your pain.

[cuban leaf]

EVs use the road, too. Pay up.

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This. They are also heavier.