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.
I think the high entry cost of EVs made them too costly to be limited to short-hop driving, and so they were being positioned as replacements for the family vehicle. Once that happened, their strength became their liability as their range became a limiting factor not present in short-hop errand driving.
In fact, this thread from July 4 began with a chart that attempted to prove that EVs are more efficient from an total emissions standpoint, but I think I proved that the hybrid actually is more efficient when viewed from a per capita miles driven standpoint.
-PJ
Wasn’t it a Republican majority legislature that passed the 2nd highest gas tax in the nation at the time? I also believe the Commonwealth’s temporary 😂 sale and use tax was passed by Republicans too.
It would help pay for the damage done to roads when they catch fire.
So, EVs always needed a backup, i.e. an ICE vehicle.
Even around town trips are nonviable when you aren’t planning well ahead.
Same with NY and it's Thruway tolls.
“Wasn’t it a Republican majority legislature that passed the 2nd highest gas tax in the nation at the time?’
Yes, it was. But they aren’t “Republicans”; they’re demonKKKrats in GOPe garb.
Should 6000# ICE powered SUVs pay a higher tax than a 4000# EV?
I agree, to a point.
If you're going to the local grocery store for an hour and then driving back home, you still need to make sure you haven't depleted the charge the day before or that you didn't forget to plug the car in the night before. Best case is that the store has a row of charging stations for shoppers to top off their cars for the drive home.
If you're going out to dinner at a favorite restaurant on the other side of town with a round trip of 50 miles or more, then it becomes a little bit riskier if it's a hilly drive or cold outside and you didn't charge the car beforehand.
-PJ
You answer first. It’s your question.
I think Hybrids make sense for a lot of folks, and even EV’s for some folks in dense urban areas. But for the rest of us they are a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. There is no climate crisis. There is no over abundance of CO2 (we could actually use more), and ICE engines are incredibly efficient and polution free.
They don’t like to talk about the real reasons they want us out of ICE powered vehicles.
Yep … “invent-a-name” filth.
Individual mobility , single family home ownership, self reliance all 3 are targets.
The irony is that many dense urban areas (particularly in older cities) have a large portion of their population using on-street parking—which means at home charging is not an option.
Now the gas tax goes to the General fund and Colorado spends less on highways.The dirty little secret is government employee retirement benefits are paid from the general fund...that's what they designed it to do.
The only one I know of was I-30 between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Makes perfect sense. EV’s are heavier than ICE cars, use all roads, but pay no gasoline tax.
Yep. Communism by another name.
Fair enough. I own an EV and agree there needs to be a way to to recoup road infrastructure costs.
The real tax will be those with “high” electric bills: A graduated cost based on usage. It’s coming, and being discussed at energy boards across America.
Love how states claim taxes are low all the while implementing fees for this and that declaring “it’s not a tax, it’s a fee”
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