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.
Very good point. They would require street charging. And of course, those are the same streets with a plethora of pitched tents. 🤣
“You answer first. It’s your question.”
LOL!
Now add a $ 10,000 battery disposal ecological impact fee to it.
I live in Texas. Plan to never pay this tax.
Not anywhere enough to offset their not paying a gas tax to maintain roads and infrastructure, most EV’s are heavier than ICE vehicles and do more damage.
And $ 5000 battery fire insurance policy requirement.
My first thought was positive, the TX gubmint is trying to save the EV zealots from themselves. Maybe so ...
If you drive extensively in this state you know that the last place you want to be in summer heat with a dead EV is anywhere East of El Paso for a few hundred miles. You would probably survive the heat as some good folk would stop and help, but getting your EV paperweight serviced may take a while.
Yep, that’s the only one that I have ever heard of, that took down the tollbooths after the bonds were paid off.
Now politicians play with the budgets to ensure that anything not used in maintenance is send to the general fund.
Should your Roush have higher insurances rates than, say, a Toyota Corolla?
Do you count the gasoline tax that the ICE is paying at the pump that the EV is not as part of that "higher tax?"
If yes, then the question is whether the ICE driver is paying more than $200/year in the gasoline tax paid at the pump.
Let's take an example: the heaviest SUV is the GMC Yukon Denali XL at 6,100 lbs. It has a 28 gallon fuel tank and gets an average of 15 miles per gallon. In Texas, the state portion of the gasoline tax is 20 cents per gallon. Nationally, the average miles driven per year per person is about 13,000.
If the Yukon driver is an average driver, the 13,000 miles driven means that the #6,000 ICE driver bought about 867 gallons of gasoline and paid $173 in gasoline tax in Texas.
If we're being generous and say that the Yukon gets 20 MPG, then the driver paid $130 in gasoline taxes.
It looks like the average "6000# ICE powered SUV" driver is paying about $25 less in gasoline tax than the EV driver is paying in extra registration fees.
-PJ
https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/texas-electric-vehicle-tax-registration-fee
Texas has a $0.20 tax on each gallon of gasoline. So, $400 / $0.20 = 2000 gallons / 20 mpg = 40,000 miles per year and the $200 fee afterwards is 20,000 miles per year. So at least they are being fair to IEC drivers.
Where is the link to the article. Yours takes us to the Texas legislature home page.
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That suv already pays more than the ev, in gas tax. No way does the extra registration fee make up for the loss in gas tax revenue. I applaud Texas extracting some of it from ev owners, but it should be MUCH higher, maybe $1000 - $1500.
The state of Texas requires all personal car and light truck owners to pay an annual $50.75 state vehicle registration fee. For commercial vehicles, the registration fee is based on the weight of the vehicle, and these fees range from $54 to more than $840. The County Tax Assessor-Collector collects this fee, and nearly 100 percent of these funds go directly toward transportation-related purposes. Additionally, the county has the option to impose an extra fee on top of the statewide fee.
Fees nearly double for a vehicle 10,000 to 18,000 pounds
As cars become more fuel efficient less tax will be collected, but the population is growing, so there are more vehicles on the road. Commercial truck are heavy & will do more damage to roads, but they aren’t as fuel efficient so will pay out a lot in fuel taxes. Electric cars are about 1,000 pounds heavier than a comparable ICE vehicle but pay no fuel tax, of course.
If your state does not yet have a special tax on EVs, well, it will soon.
Indeed gas operated car owners have to pay a gas tax for road maintenance.
Knew that was coming.
In most states, you pay a core charge (refundable) when you buy a new starter battery for your car and there is also a federal tax on tires. I imagine there might eventually be a fee or tax on EV batteries when they’re no longer usable and need to be disposed of. They have valuable metals in them, but are not very easy to extract.
And they'll do more damage to your vehicle and YOU if you collide with one. And the cost to repair these EV's is very expensive.
Higher repair and hospital bills. Insurance premiums will be going up for everyone.
I am on the email lists for many state and federal agencies.
The only link they had that made sense to include was to the Senate bill that authorized the EV tax.
The legislature passed the bill and the DMV collects the taxes.
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