Posted on 07/25/2023 8:14:26 AM PDT by texas booster
(AUSTIN, Texas – July 25, 2023) Owners of electric vehicles in Texas will soon pay an additional fee when registering their vehicle. Senate Bill 505, passed by the Texas Legislature during the 88th Regular Session, adds a $200 annual fee for electric vehicle registration renewals and a $400 fee at the time of new electric vehicle purchases for the initial two-year registration period.
The new fee will be collected on electric vehicle registrations processed on or after September 1, 2023, in addition to the standard vehicle registration fees and any tax due for the vehicle. Texans may renew their vehicle registration up to 90 days prior to expiration. The fee will not apply to hybrid vehicles.
Revenue collected from the fee will be deposited into the state highway fund to help pay for roadway construction and maintenance projects.
There should be an extra fee on tires to help offset the missing fuel taxes. EV’s eat tires because of the extra weight...............
Getting the ICE vehicles off the road is the hard part, EVs will be child’s play to get rid of, or at least make them so inconvenient to operate.
“Please note that the fee does not apply to hybrids - which some watermelon somewhere has decided just aren’t good enough.”
Hybrids are gas-powered.
Kinda poetic, isn't it?
DC politicians have taken money from Texas for so long and sent it around the country to their favored (liberal) locations.
Why not reverse the trend and just tax the money for the Texas general fund, or even the border security fund?
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First of all, these EVs are considerably heavier than your standard internal combustion vehicle thus placing more stress on all of the roads and bridges that were not designed for EV usage.
Add on to that the the tires for EVs wear out faster than standard tires, again due to the weight of these vehicles.
Then we need to consider the charging stations that need to be put in place all over because of the much shorter range of EVs.
Another consideration is what happens when an EV has either a catastrophic failure or high impact collision with another vehicle? The clean up requires the presence of a capable HazMat Crew due to the large abundance of Hazardous Materials that make up the battery packs.
On and on this list goes.
What a patently STUPID IDEA.
The net result of this, given the costs would be passed onto consumers, is that vehicle owners will just ride on their tires well past the point where they are no longer safe to drive on. Balder tires, more accidents.
I am glad that the legislature kept that rule in.
Hybrids use about 1/70th of the lithium that a full on EV does, and usually deliver better mileage than an ICE.
Most of the technologies first developed for hybrids can also cross over to ICE.
Let the hybrids keep sipping fuel. At least they pay some gas tax.
Anyone ever look at an asphalt road after an EV fire? I've seen one such area after an EV fire, and I suspect the road would need some sort of repair or earlier maintenance.
Should 6000# ICE powered SUVs pay a higher tax than a 4000# EV?
i.e. they do.
Having to be hamstrung by constantly looking ahead and planning your trips and days according to the limited range of an EV, a range that fluctuates wildly depending on ambient conditions, is the very definition of unviable.
Both AC and heating greatly reduce the range. I guess limiting driving in the moderate seasons of the year is the answer.
Cars do very little damage to roads.
i.e. cars are worse than big trucks. But then, have you seen the road taxes those trucks pay?
Plus the ability to remotely kill the car’s ability to take a charge.
“if they become popular enough to really impact the grid, I see my electricity costs go sky high.”
Here in CT the electric rates are already sky high—and electric vehicles will never catch on for long—one long cold hard winter and even the biggest boosters will throw in the towel.
Why not pass an excise tax per kWh on public fast chargers?
And people thought that by swapping to an EV, that they could avoid the gas tax. HAH!
Colorado had a gas tax that was 100% applied towards the highway funding, then, liberals happened. Now the gas tax goes to the General fund and Colorado spends less on highways. Pothole city and no rural expenditures. Bridges falling apart and roadways crumbling. Registering a new car in Colorado is $1,300 or more for plates, on top of sales taxes.
“Should 6000# ICE powered SUVs pay a higher tax than a 4000# EV?”
They already do in some states. Weight of the vehicle is a factor in the taxes for plates.
A friend told me that states will eventually impose ‘miles driven’ fees on EVs. I think he’s right.
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