I remember reading that cars do very little damage to roads and that trucks do almost all the damage.
I agree that if gas cars pay tax through their gas taxes them EVs should pay a similar amount. Taxing all vehicles according to their damage seems fair, but I’d beware of giving the government any excuse to adjust tax laws. I don’t trust them at all.
https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-trucks-do-our-roads
Trucks are virtually the only damages done. And your tax contribution via gas taxes is not even a fraction of the total expenditure. $114 vs $700+ in today’s money per capita. Given that not everyone drives that number per driver is 3 times higher given 100 million drivers vs 330 million people in the USA. The EU taxes based on MAM maximum allowable mass this is why you don’t see pick-up trucks being driven as commuter cars. That and you need a class C1 or above operators licence to drive any truck with trailer over 750kg or MAM over 3500kg that’s an F150 sized truck. C licences require sponsorship by an employer in most EU countries. So no truck bro bros you have to have a legitimate need for a truck and they tax out the nose by the Kg and also by the individual horsepower monthly for insurance coverage.