Should 6000# ICE powered SUVs pay a higher tax than a 4000# EV?
You answer first. It’s your question.
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
A 6000# ICE probably gets poor MPG and therefore pays more taxes.