First I’ve heard of it and it sounds fair enough. The Tesla drivers on I-80 need to pay their share just like everyone else does.
Excellent.
Now, do bicyclists using roads.
YES!
Let all the smug do-gooders who think they know best be taxed at the charging stations.
Texas charges $200 per year extra for EVs and $400 for the first registration.
Gas tax in Texas is 20 cents per gallon.
“On average, Americans drive 14,263 miles per year according to the Federal Highway Administration.”
Fleet average mpg is 25mpg.
14263/25=570 gal
570*25=$114 per year on average.
I have short term leased both a Camry hybrid and a Prius. The Camry hybrid was getting 56 in the city and 52 on the motorways at 85mph. The Prius say as high as 78 mpg over a ten mile grid lock trip a d avg 60 city and 58 motorway. So gas hybrids would be under $50 per year in gas taxes vs $200 flat for an EV.
For the EV driver to pay the same as a 25mpg driver they would have to cover 25,000 miles not 14260. So the EV driver is getting taxed more in Texas than the average person who drives a 25mpg vehicle. Most cars gets higher than the fleet avg its the suburban truck bro bros who are getting 18mpg in those trucks that have never seen a worksite let alone mud on the way to those office jobs and back to the burbs. I only use my F250 powerstroke for hauling or off-road duty so it’s fuel use and tax is minimal or billed directly to the client and written off.
Damn Right!
I’d like to a study to determine if the insurance companies are spreading the pain around to their customers. Given how easily EVs can be totaled from a minor accident or flooded during a storm/hurricane, can’t imagine what those premiums would be.
Possibly paying rates on the cheap Tesla as if you were rolling around in full size Benz or macdaddy Porsche
The data is a bit old, but there were only 800 EVs and 600 plugin hybrids registrations in Wyoming for 2022. The road tax might pay for repaving an on ramp after 20 years,